Re: aptitude crashing x?
On 07 Dec 2007, Michael Pobega wrote:
> 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)
>
I've done this for years without problems - but I don't use Aptitude, I
use wajig.
Anthony
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