On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 10:06:12AM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote: > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > > which was filed against the release-notes package: > > #608704: release-notes: recommend to close any running X server? > > It has been closed by Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>. > Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org> wrote: > > > I want to ask, if it would make sense to advice the user, to > > > close any running X server when doing an dist-upgrade. > > Actually already advised: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.fr.html#upgrade-preparations > No, that's not correct. > The release-notes recommend to not _use_ the x server for upgrade, > but you can have an x server running. > It is not recommended to shutdown any running x servers on the > machine! > That's not the same. > And that's what I asked for. > Shall I reopen? Why do you want users to shut down their X server during the upgrade? I don't think this is a sound recommendation. Even recommending to not run the upgrade under X is, IMHO and IME, a paranoid recommendation that we include only for the benefit of a very small number of users who might be impacted. gdm certainly doesn't break running X sessions when upgraded. If anything, "shut down your X server" is just a subcategory of "save all your work before you start upgrading so that you don't lose any if an application crashes". As a *general* recommendation that might be appropriate to have in the release notes; I don't think we should single out the X server. -- 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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