Re: aptitude crashing x?

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:30:43PM -0800, joseph lockhart <jwl_andlovesaidno@yahoo.com> was heard to say:
> > Does this happen every time you run an upgrade?
> >  Does "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" do
> >the same thing?
> 
> can't answer this one, i only use apt-get source
> --download-only and that only rarely

  Can you try it and see what happens?

> >  Does it get through the whole upgrade process and
> >then reboot, or is
> >it rebooting while downloading packages?  Are the
> >packages that you
> > were
> >trying to upgrade upgraded afterwards?
> 
> after the first odd run, updates work normally

  What does it print out before it reboots?  Does it get to the
prompt for upgrades?

> >  Does it go through the usual reboot procedure (so
> >you see "stopping
> >down ___ ... done") or does it just abruptly reset?
> 
> yes it is the full reboot, stopping, killing, then
> rebooting, just as if i told it to reboot from the
> menu

  OK, then I doubt it's a hardware problem.

  Did you install any new packages just before this started happening?

  Daniel