Commonly Used Sudo Commands for (*)Ubuntu/Unity Crash Recovery

[zika]

Anyone know what happened to :

sudo -i dpkg --configure -a

I even tried it in Precise and it comes up with an error.

My follow-up question is;

Does there actually have to be broken packages for this to work?

Regards,
Ventrical

What error is produced?

[stinkeye]

Anyone know what happened to :

sudo -i dpkg --configure -a

I even tried it in Precise and it comes up with an error.

My follow-up question is;

Does there actually have to be broken packages for this to work?

Regards,
Ventrical

Doesn't the -i mean install.
Is it just

sudo dpkg --configure -a

[zika]

Doesn't the -i mean install.
Is it just

sudo dpkg --configure -a

„-i“ is used as a switch for „sudo“...
Let's see what is the error...

[ventrical]

„-i“ is used as a switch for „sudo“...
Let's see what is the error...

Exactly .. it is needed for root permissions. Back over a year ago I was doing an install/update and there was a lightning strike here. The power went out in the middle of while those packakes were being unpacked. I used that command and it worked just perfectly. Now, I guess the only way I can prove this is to do an update and emulate a power outage.

Anyways , I was just trying to get some confirmation as there is a discussion about this in another thread.

[ventrical]

Doesn't the -i mean install.
Is it just

sudo dpkg --configure -a

The -i is for root, However .. I tired it as you had posted and it just did nothing - no error at all. I think that command is specifically for broken packages. I ised it with the (-i) over a year ago when there was a power outage in my area and that command successfully fixed all the broken packages.

[zika]

The -i is for root, However .. I tired it as you had posted and it just did nothing - no error at all. I think that command is specifically for broken packages. I ised it with the (-i) over a year ago when there was a power outage in my area and that command successfully fixed all the broken packages.

Man files are not so far away:

--configure package...|-a|--pending              
              Configure a package which has been unpacked but not yet  config‐
              ured.   If  -a  or  --pending  is  given instead of package, all
              unpacked but unconfigured packages are configured.


              To reconfigure a package which has already been configured,  try
              the dpkg-reconfigure(8) command instead.


              Configuring consists of the following steps:


              1.  Unpack  the  conffiles, and at the same time back up the old
              conffiles, so that they can be restored if something goes wrong.


              2. Run postinst script, if provided by the package.

[ventrical]

The:

sudo -i dpkg --configure -a

worked perfectly from terminal (not GUI terminal) [alt +F1 terminal]. I had dowloaded 75MB of updates and pulled the plug just as synaptic was starting to unpack the updates. Of course all packages were then updated with that command.

[ventrical]

Man files are not so far away:

--configure package...|-a|--pending              
              Configure a package which has been unpacked but not yet  config‐
              ured.   If  -a  or  --pending  is  given instead of package, all
              unpacked but unconfigured packages are configured.


              To reconfigure a package which has already been configured,  try
              the dpkg-reconfigure(8) command instead.


              Configuring consists of the following steps:


              1.  Unpack  the  conffiles, and at the same time back up the old
              conffiles, so that they can be restored if something goes wrong.


              2. Run postinst script, if provided by the package.

My bad ..

It's

sudo -i dpkg --configure -a

not

sudo dpkg -i --configure -a

thanks

[zika]

My bad ..

It's

sudo -i dpkg --configure -a

not

sudo dpkg -i --configure -a

thanks

It was like that in Your original post and we (re)solved that in prevoius posts...

[ventrical]

It was like that in Your original post and we (re)solved that in prevoius posts...

No zika...

Please see the correction here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...4#post12607444

which was pasted from my post here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...3#post11893873

my bad