"sudo aptitude install scsiadd" removes packages (wiped out system)

[Kevin Sullivan]

"sudo aptitude install scsiadd" REMOVED ALL MY SOFTWARE -- Jaunty 64 bit on Intel i7 CPU.

Yes, it was my fault because I hit "yes" too soon. But I don't believe that catastrophic changes should be made so easy. I don't have a backup because I was installing this package precisely so that I could mount an external esata drive *to run by first backup* The text that aptitude produced ran off my screen but you can see what it did, below.

Kevin

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Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe scsiadd 1.96-1 [13.0kB]
Fetched 13.0kB in 0s (27.9kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 208929 files and directories currently installed.)
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 * Stopping automatic crash report generation: apport [ OK ]
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 * Stopping System Tools Backends system-tools-backends [ OK ]
 * Reloading system message bus config... [ OK ]
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 * Stopping network connection manager NetworkManager [ OK ]
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   /etc/rc2.d/S50NetworkManager
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 * Stopping MD monitoring service mdadm --monitor [ OK ]
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
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Unknown media type in type 'all/all'

Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'

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Unknown media type in type 'fonts/package'

Unknown media type in type 'interface/x-winamp-skin'

Processing triggers for python-support ...
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ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
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Regenerating hal fdi cache ...
 * Restarting Hardware abstraction layer hald [ OK ]
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-server
^Cdpkg: subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu29) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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[ceg (ceg)]

Not installable in 9.10 either.

# aptitude install scsiadd
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut
Lese Status-Informationen ein... Fertig
Lese erweiterte Statusinformationen
Initialisiere Paketstatus... Fertig
Schreibe erweiterte Statusinformationen... Fertig
Die folgenden NEUEN Pakete werden zusätzlich installiert:
  scsiadd
Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT:
  amarok-common{u} amarok-utils{u} k3b-data{u} ktorrent-data{u} latex2html{u} libaqhbci16{u} libclucene0ldbl{u} libepub0{u} libflac++6{u}
  libindicate-qt0{u} liblastfm0{u} liblzma0{u} libmsn0.1{u} libotr2{u} libpackagekit-glib11{u} libpackagekit-qt11{u} libpolkit-dbus2{u}
  libpolkit-grant2{u} libpolkit-qt0{u} libpolkit2{u} libpoppler-qt2{u} libpoppler-qt4-3{u} libqca2{u} libqca2-plugin-ossl{u} libqscintilla2-5{u}
  libqtscript4-core{u} libqtscript4-gui{u} libqtscript4-network{u} libqtscript4-sql{u} libqtscript4-uitools{u} libqtscript4-xml{u} libscim8c2a{u}
  libsoprano4{u} libstreamanalyzer0{u} libstreams0{u} libstrigiqtdbusclient0{u} libtag-extras1{u} libtidy-0.99-0{u} libvncserver0{u}
  libxcb-shape0{u} libxcb-shm0{u} libxcb-xv0{u} libxine1{u} libxine1-bin{u} libxine1-console{u} libxine1-misc-plugins{u} libxine1-x{u} libyaz3{u}
  libyazpp3{u} libzip1{u} lilypond{u} lilypond-data{u} lilypond-doc{u} marble-data{u} packagekit{u} packagekit-backend-apt{u} perl-doc{u}
  phonon-backend-xine{u} policykit{u} python-packagekit{u} python-qt4-dbus{u} quassel-data{u} soprano-daemon{u} tex4ht{u} tex4ht-common{u}
  texlive-xetex{u}
0 Pakete aktualisiert, 1 zusätzlich installiert, 66 werden entfernt und 7 nicht aktualisiert.
Muss 13,0kB an Archiven herunterladen. Nach dem Entpacken werden 418MB frei werden.
Wollen Sie fortsetzen? [Y/n/?] n
Abbruch.

[ceg (ceg)]

maybe try "sudo rescan-scsi-bus.sh" from package scsitools

[ceg (ceg)]

with synaptic it does not seem to want to remove packages