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Re: etch upgrade problem



On Monday, 09.04.2007 at 19:55 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:

> Perhaps it's not a good idea upgrading while X is running, but the
> only problems I've ever had were when upgrading from Woody to Sarge. I
> seem to remember X being shutdown, and having to continue the upgrade
> from the command line.

I believe the recommended approach is to run the upgrade/dist-upgrade in
'screen', so that any network or X-related problem will not kill the
upgrade process.  Haven't upgraded my Sarge systems yet, but that's the
way *I'm* planning to do it.

Dave.
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