Re: Why can ubuntu dist upgrade dist from within an X session?
On Mon 20 May 2013 at 01:16:35 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 19 mai 13, 21:05:01, Joe wrote:
> >
> > The warning explicitly applies to remote upgrades, and refers to 'an X
> > session *managed*... on the machine you are upgrading", implying that
> > you will be operating X from a different machine. 'Inaccessible system'
>
> I don't think it does, it says "managed by [*]dm [...] on the machine
> you are upgrading", which I understand to mean the same machine.
>
> There's also this comment in the source that seems to imply the same
> thing:
>
> <programlisting condition="fixme">
> TODO: surely gdm/kdm are sane?
> (vorlon) haha, no, gdm is not; I had that thought, and tested a gdm
> restart on my live session ;)
> </programlisting>
And from someone heavily involved in the maintenance of GNOME:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2013/04/msg00141.html
No distinction is made between a local or remote upgrade.
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