Re: Minor issue while setting up libc6
Matthew Thompson <mattyt@oz.net> writes:
> I have a potato system here at work that I just upgraded to Woody. While
> setting up libc6, when dselect asks 'Do you wish to Restart Services?
> [Y/n]' I accidentally hit the \ key as I was hitting the [ENTER] key which
> hung the install. I had to ctrl-c and [ENTER] my way back in.
I doubt if it hung the install. \ is the escape character and was
effectively escaping the newline, so dpkg hadn't actually received an
answer to its question. If you had hit enter a second time, it would
have continued.
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