Probably stupid question, but

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 27 August 2013 13:19:17 Liam Proven did opine:

> On 25 August 2013 03:48, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > nothing I could do would clear that EULA screen, not even typing OK on
> > the keyboard,
> 
> Click on the window to give it focus. Use the Tab key to move between
> fields and Enter to accept.
> 
> >  so eventually I reset it, and had to run the dpkg --configure -a
> > 
> > when it was rebooted.
> 
> Then you've almost certainly left it FUBAR. Reformat, start again.

The configure line marched right thru it and finished with no errors.  This 
is the line it suggested I execute as soon as I had rebooted according to 
the 'details' pulldown when it hung.  No problems remain that I have noted.  
Neither apt-get nor synaptic has complained since.

Cheers, Gene
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