On 13/05/12 17:56, Roger wrote:
I should point out that no operating system is invulnerable from monkey attacks like this one. I have seen Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X installations b0rked due to upgrades where a monkey took control before it completed. Unfortunately that’s the way the cookie crumbles, and data recovery is probably the best long-term option. FWIW. Both Fedora and Ubuntu seem to recommend updating OS files regularly, I've seen this mentioned quite a lot over the years. I update both every few days. My daughter just yesterday updated her Ubuntu Oneiric laptop to Precise after updating to all the latest files, it took from about 4:30pm to 10:45pm to complete downloading, installing and checking the file system. Her system stopped for about 18 minutes - doing what ever it was doing, she just let it go and eventually it got going again. She googled some page or other every 5 minutes to make sure the bigpond inernet did not time out... we had that time out with the last ubuntu upgrade so she made sure it wouldn't happen again.
That's odd.. The way the Ubuntu upgrader works is specifically designed to avoid that problem of internet connections timing out halfway through. The upgrader will download every package, before starting to install them.
I'm thinking the stoppage experienced may have been internet time out that triggered monkey attack. Hope this helps Roger