reassign 603483 update-manager severity 603483 wishlist retitle 603483 can update-manager warn against distro upgrades? thanks On Sonntag, 14. November 2010, LAZA wrote: > Package: upgrade-reports > Severity: important > Tags: d-i > > After changing the sources.list i can't go back to another configuration. > > The manger denies ALL changes, i'm not able to activate an option und can't > change the server - also as i clicked on 'best server' the standard 'Haupt- > Server' (mein server) is actived an won't change. > Updating brings up a problem with some packages, that are not found on the > server: > sources.list: > > # > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 > NETINST Binary-1 20101107-09:05]/ squeeze main > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 > NETINST Binary-1 20101107-09:05]/ squeeze main > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze contrib non-free main > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-proposed-updates main > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/updates contrib > > > I have another installation on work so i manually changed the sources.list > and then it is working... > > Now i got an fatal error and i hope, the update-manager hang up and neither > the download is finished nor the program closes or the bug report pops up. > > Some more informations: > Debian 6 is an installation as guest in virtualbox 3.2.8 from Ubuntu > 10.04.1 > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers testing-proposed-updates > APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, > 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Hi, in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603483#15 Javier correctly pointed out that its not recommended to upgrade from within an X session, so this could be closed as not-a-bug. But maybe update-manager could warn about this, though I dont really have a good idea how to detect such upgrades... I'm sure you, the update-manager maintainers, can better evaluate how sensible it is, to keep this bug open. cheers, Holger
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