Bug#294816: upgrade text is not clear. please reword it
Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-20
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Instead of:
> Name Service Switch has changed in the C Library: pre-installation
> question.
>
> Running programs may not be able to do NSS lookups until they are
> restarted. Some services can not accept all authentication after extracting
> glibc package into your system. This script automatically restarts some
> packages for example ssh or telnetd, but other packages for example xdm
> cannot restart because if it restarts automatically, then your X11
> session is disconnected. So you have to logout and stop xdm; you have
> to restart all such services after upgrading glibc with your hands.
> Known packages that are needed to stop before installing glibc 2.3:
> xdm kdm gdm postgresql xscreensaver
>
> This script detects services which need to stop: postgresql
> If you are invoking these services, please stop before
> upgrading.
> If you want to stop upgrade for the present, please answer the
> below question as No.
I suggest the following text:
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Name Service Switch update
services and running programs that are using NSS need to be restarted -
otherwise they might not be able to do lookups any more. The installation
process is able to restart some services, such as ssh or telnetd, but
other programs can not be restarted automatically.
One such program that needs manual stoping and restart after the libc6
upgrade manually is is xdm - doing this automatically might disconnect
active X11 sessions.
You will need to stop all such services and programs now and manually
start them after libc6 is updated.
Known programs and services that need to be stoped *before* the libc6
ugrade are:
xdm kdm gdm postgresql xscreensaver
This scripts has detected the following service which you are required
to stop now:
postgres
If you want to interrupt the upgrade now and continue later the please
answer "No" to the question below.
Do you want to upgrade libc6 now? [Y/n] N
Stopped glibc upgrade. Please restart the upgrade after you have
checked or stoped the programs or services by hand.
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*t
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.22
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl
-- no debconf information
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