Holding back the base-files package

[Colin23erk]

Thanks Valtam and gold_finger

Brings me back to a General annoyance with computer software that  I expressed to N4RPS a while ago

          What I need is a better way to solve problems and not to just get error codes or messages that mean nothing  and it is up to the user / administrator /technician  to spend hours/days to find out what actually went wrong so they can  sort it . With the vast amount of computing power in today's computers they should have self diagnostics built in .

In my clockwork working days it was accepted to get a simple fail message because of the limits of the technology. The problem was often a failure to get an input because of an error that happened several steps ago..
           

As you have seen it before this looks like a Generic message that is generated to suggest there is a potential problem . What it is and how it effects us and how to fix it  , is for them to know and the recipients to puzzle out . There is not even a Web page link  to point us in the right direction.

In these days when numerically more OS's are installed in PC's its not helpful to have messages saying *In case of difficulty consult your administrator *
Until computers talk directly to their users and in a comprehensible way they will still be considered as the province of geeks or expensive professionals

Colin