HELP - I'm Stuck in Terminal after [d] Display

[Rick St. George]

Upgrading UbuntuStudio from v16.10 from v14.10 and saw some file to be replaced. It asked did I want to;

1. Keep the file [n]
2. Use Maintainers Version of file [y]
3. or Display [d]

I chose [d] to display, and could not get back to the prompt. So, not knowing what I was doing, I went to the Top Menu Bar and chose "Clear Scrollback and Reset".

Now to keep the Upgrade going, and not corrupt it, HOW do I get back to where it was???

Thanks!
Rick

[Bucky Ball]

Are you really using 16.10? It's not released until October.

Unsure how an upgrade from the out of support 14.10 to 16.10 is possible ... :-k

[Rick St. George]

Bucky, I guess it is 14.04 to 16.04 (LTS).

[brilyant]

I just can't wait to hear the answer to the original question, having been there in identical circumstances.

I blundered through with CTL-C, but I never quite what, if anything, this will bring down in flames. Should there be a prompt to exit from this post-[d]Display state?

[howefield]

If there is still a task running in the terminal, try Ctrl + z to suspend it, then


jobs

to list them and


fg jobnumber

to bring them to the foreground.

[brilyant]

Thanks, that answers my query.

[Rick St. George]

OK Howefeld, Now I'm back to where I was before, and it shows (END).
But it seems nothing I press - Enter, Escape, etc. gets back to the prompt. It is still in "display" mode.

Any Suggestion?
Thanks.

[steeldriver]

It's just using the 'less' pager AFAIK - hitting the Q key should quit and send you back

[Rick St. George]

Thanks! That worked SteelDriver. Back in business and case closed.