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In Linux Mint, if I have an upgrade that is taking a long time, can I sudo shutdown -h +60 and walk away, or is there a better way? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by sem@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/linux@programming.dev

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I don't want the system to shutdown in the middle of the upgrade, but I've already started the upgrade in the GUI.

Is there a better way, maybe involving the apt lock?

EDIT: Thank you for all the helpful suggestions. Hopefully this helps the next person. My upgrade actually finished on its own while I was posting. 😂

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

If you started it in the terminal and are using bash hit "ctrl+z" to put the process to sleep and get your shell back, then use "fg ; sudo shutdown - c 1". "fg" puts a job back in the foreground.

Use "help fg" for more information. You also have "bg" (background) and "kill %1" to kill a specific job. ~~There's more, but I forget how to list tasks (maybe "tasks"?)~~ "jobs" to list jobs.

[–] khleedril@cyberplace.social 4 points 3 days ago

@onlinepersona @sem "jobs"

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

I did not know about the fg; (next command)

That's amazing! So cool.