Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?
On 2025-08-10, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 16:14:16 -0400, Default User wrote:
>> I was doing the upgrade in Gnome, using the Gnome
>> GUI terminal. While apt was downloading/installing
>> packages, the terminal suddenly disappeared. Not
>> lock up. Not freeze. Just disappeared completely!
>
> For the archives, and for anyone else reading in real time: it is
> strongly recommended that you do NOT perform an upgrade while logged
> into a Desktop Environment.
That's always been explicit in the Release Notes; yet after reading them
for Trixie, I didn't see that recommendation.
Maybe I missed it somehow.
> The best choice is to log out of your Desktop Environment entirely,
> then login on a console as root. Perform the upgrade from there,
> and reboot. This may mean you need to write down the commands, or
> copy them into a text file for reference from the console, if you
> can't remember them.
>
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