Re: using apt-listbugs

[Rick Reynolds <rick@rickandviv.net>]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:

> 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.
>  

Great to know!  Yes, I certainly understand the need to restart X for X 
packages getting updated, same for reboots for kernels.

> > 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.
>  

Hmm... I had attempted to do exactly this with telinit, but it never 
worked cleanly on this system and it was never anything I wanted to 
chase down.  I haven't tried init itself to switch levels.  And as 
upgrade was the primary reason I've ever done so, I probably won't need 
to mess with this much at all.

> As for your earlier problem about scrolling through the
> terminal, you can just shift+PageUp/PageDown to scroll.

Something else I didn't know.  I'm learning lots of good stuff today!

Thanks,
Rick Reynolds
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