On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:30:35AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: > But attacking this problem from another angle: I'm assuming it's not a > good idea to do an upgrade from within X. Is that accurate? If I ran > the upgrade within an xterm window, I'd probably not have this alignment > problem at all. There's no problem upgrading within X. I've done it for years. It's just that if you upgrade various X-related packages, you'll want to restart X. But if you upgrade the kernel, you'll probably want to reboot your whole system. > I used to actually do this procedure: > > 1. edit /etc/inittab so that the computer boots into a runlevel I've > created that doesn't include X > 2. reboot the machine > 3. ssh into the machine and run the update > > But that seemed like a lot of hassle. I seems "more natural" to do the > update at the console anyway. Whoa. You don't need to do all that. For one thing, steps 1 and 2 are redundant: if you really wanted to drop into a lower runlevel, you can just type 'init [runlevel]' to drop to that level right away; you don't need to wait for a reboot. If you want to stop X, you can just do sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop (or '/kdm stop', or whatever). But don't worry about stopping X. As for your earlier problem about scrolling through the terminal, you can just shift+PageUp/PageDown to scroll. -- Stephen R. Laniel steve@laniels.org Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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