System Update froze - UbuntuMATE 16-04

Bret Busby bret.busby at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 17:37:53 UTC 2018


On 22/06/2018, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 June 2018 at 16:46, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ...
>> So, this "feature" that was apparently included in 16.04.2, in all of
>> the circumstances, probably, instead of changing Ubuntu 16.04 to the
>> status of Debian sid, appears to have turned Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04,
>> into the nature of Debian experimental, with all data at risk.
>
> It is the disc causing the update to hang, not the update causing the
> disc problem.
> It is almost certainly a faulty disk.  What happens if you unmount it,
> or if you can't then just unplug it?
>

How can a device be unmounted, if the software can not identify it?

Without any usable system utilities to identify any device, and, no
file operations available, it is a bit like diving into shallow
rockpools from the top of a cliff, or, the famous test for voice
controlled operating systems, where the member of the audience yelled
out "Format C colon!".

Simply unplugging a mounted USB device, destroys it, from experiential memory.

And, it is not your data that is at risk.

Simply reacting like saying "oops", if hundreds of GB of data is
destroyed, does not help.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

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 you'll know what the answer means."
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 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
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