Re: Safety of upgrading KDE while running KDE?
El Miércoles, 18 de Octubre de 2006 07:48, Ross Boylan escribió:
> Is it safe to upgrade KDE, especially core components like kdelibs,
> while one is running KDE? I've been erring on the side of caution,
> but things have been changing a lot in testing recently, and it's a
> bit of a hassle to shut everything down and start up again.
I normally upgrade any piece of KDE while running it. However, I try to
restart all the affected parts if possible. If you are upgrading the bugfix
release (i.e., "z" in "kde x.y.z"), there should be no problem at all. Maybe
the 3.5 release is a small exception, because there are minor feature changes
during the bugfix releases of this series, but personally, I didn't have any
problem so far.
> Similarly, what about changes at the xorg level? (I suppose I could
> add lots of other things as well: hal, dbus, libc...) I know Debian
> generally doesn't require rebooting, but do the same "just do it"
> assurances apply to running programs or sessions?
Upgrades of hal, used to crash kded, making impossible to print, or do other
stuff, but after a restart of kded (typing this command in a konsole), the
whole desktop worked fine again.
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