Re: GNOME session restarted during upgrade; tracking down buggy package

To: Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org, pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org, debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: GNOME session restarted during upgrade; tracking down buggy package
From: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:37:58 +0200
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Hey all,

Andrea Vettorello [2015-07-10  9:49 +0200]:
> I can't remember if it was always the case, but there's at least one bug
> opened (#762756) for GDM3 about session that are closed on upgrade.

and #791964 too.

It's really dangerous to reload/restart a DM on upgrade, unless we can
be absolutely sure that the DM is capable of doing that without
disrupting user sessions. IMHO gdm should just stop trying to do that?

Thanks,

Martin
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