[ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 19.10: Autoremove deleted my whole system

[Thomas Pfundt]

Hi all,

I've just installed Ubuntu Studio 19.10 after flirting around with Kubuntu a bit (grass-always-greener-syndrome) and decided to settle back on Xfce.

I know it's a little late for 19.10 bug reports, but after installing everything, I did an "apt autoremove", because I usually get some leftover packages after my initial setup. However, this time I accepted without looking too closely and it basically deleted my whole system, everything, even xinit.

I've never had this happen before. Does somebody know what could have caused this? Or what the issue might be related to? I'd like to avoid this happening at a later stage down the line when I just remove a program or something.


On a side note: While using the Ubuntu Studio Installer on Kubuntu, I got an error message at the end. I think it still installed everything (at least the kernel and made some audio tweaks), but I had to fix the realtime-config in Controls afterward. Unfortunately, I haven't taken any screenshots of the error and wasn't able to reproduce it on another clean install, but if it comes up again, it did happen before at least once.


Thanks and kind regards,
Thomas