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Re: aptitude crashing x?



On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:12:49AM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
> strange, every morning i run two aptitude commands from the command
> line
> 
> aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade
> 
> lately on running the full upgrade x crashes, well i shouldn't say
> crashes, the system goes through its normal reboot (first time it left
> me going huh), no error message in system log
> 
> version is aptitude 0.4.6.1
> 
> this occurs on both my etch and kubuntu 7.10 installs so i am fairly
> sure it is not a distro problem
> 
> thanks in advance for any thoughts
> 
> jwlockhart
> 

From what I remember you're generally not supposed to run any sort of
updates while in an X environment; If I were you I'd quit X and change
to TTY1 before administering any changes (Especially if the changes are
X.org or libX related)

-- 
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative
programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they
restrict the use of these programs. 
 - Richard Stallman

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