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Re: 2 cent hint



On 19-Apr-99 Richard Braakman wrote:
> Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> 
>> I student of mine told me, that he had to reinstall his system after
>> trying to upgrade it from an xterm (after that he read, that
>> upgrading should be done from console).
> 
> I always upgrade from an xterm, I've never had any problems with it.
> I suspect your student had his xdm killed while upgrading.  This
> only happens if you upgrade from pre-Overfiend versions.
> 
> Why did he have to reinstall his system?  Simply restarting the upgrade
> from a console should have worked.
> 
>> Maybe it would be worth to check to TERM variable and upgrade only, if it is
>> not xterm, etc.
> 
> That would be inconvenient.
> 

Indeed, I never leave X.  I occasionally have to restart X (when new X servers
come out) but beond that, no problems.


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