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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