Re: aptitude crashing x?
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 02:51:34PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> David <davidpalmer@westnet.com.au> writes:
> > I've used aptitude since 2004 and, despite noise on the lists to the
> > contrary, I've never had a problem with it.
>
> Seriously. Upgrading within X works just fine.
>
> [People offer all _sorts_ of "advice" on this list, much of it is good,
> but much of it is crap.]
Huh? From the release-notes Chapter4, page 15:
"Important! You should _not_ upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from
an X session managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc on the machine you are
upgrading. That is because each of those services may well be terminated
during the upgrade which can result in an _inaccessible_ system that is
only half-upgraded."
Too keep things simple, it seems good practice to advise people on this
list (many are newbies) to NOT upgrade from within X.
--
Chris.
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