On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:39:37 +0000, Le wrote in message
<20201130113937.6da5d2fa@cruncher>:

> Hello,
>
> I'm getting a circular problem upgrading cups in ceres. I've been
> tackling this for a week or so. I need two root terminals open: one
> to apt-get and the other to top + kill apt-get and dpkg.

..snip PITA details

> Any ideas?

..not on cups, never had problems with it.


..generally, have a stable back-up system on a separate disk or
partition handy BEFORE you mess up experimental stuff like ceres,
(AKA unstable, for exactly this reason) so you CAN boot that up
and chroot in to clean up your messy experiments, BTDT ;o).

..chrooting in to update your stable back-up system is a nice
exercise that will help speed up recovery the next times. ;o)

..I never had to chroot in in my Sid days until pulseaudio and
avahi hit me, Debian Sid was not unstable enough to scare anyone
until the systemd coup ramifications destroyed Debian as a viable
OS source for me.

--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.