On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:46:45PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 25.07.2014 20:44, schrieb Steve Langasek: > > Correct. But it's well-established that, when you upgrade your system, > > things may be broken in a currently logged-in desktop session until you > > log out and log back in. > The release notes actually mention that the system should *not* be > upgraded from within an X session That is a bug in the release notes, dating back to the days when X itself was unreliable enough that you couldn't be confident that it wouldn't bomb out leaving dpkg in an unclean state. Nowadays it is reliable, and a desktop user should never need to see a Linux console, including during upgrades. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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