On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:56:33PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> On Thursday 03 April 2008 18:39, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:51:49PM +1000, hce wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I ran following command and got an error.
> > >
> > > $ apt-get install lighttpd
> > > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'
> > > to correct the problem.
> > >
> > > I then ran the dpkg, and did not know why it went to call setting up
> > > my ndas driver and then freezed my system. I have to pull the power
> > > off to restart it.
> >
> > because the -a flag means "all", so every package gets reconfigured.
> >
> > now, as to why that might cause the system to crash, I don't know.
> >
> > A
>
> The -a flags means that all packages not configured are (re)configured, not
> all packages on the machine.

ah! you're right. I was confusing it with dpkg-reconfigure -a which
does everything. And no, it's not a resource problem, just takes a
while sometimes.

A

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