Bug#457900: xfs: upgrade from xterm freezes X server

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Paul Evans wrote:
> Package: xfs
> Version: 1:1.0.5-2
> Severity: normal
>
> During a normal 'dist-upgrade' of my system, the xfs package was
> upgraded. Early on in 'dist-upgrade', the old XFS was stopped. This
> caused the xterm that dist-upgrade was running from to stop responding,
> as well as other X programs stopping.
>
> To fix this, I ssh'ed in from another machine and ran:
>
>   /etc/init.d/xfs start
>
> This woke up the xterm and allowed me to finish the upgrade
>   

Are you sure that these programs were actually stuck? Or were they just
unable to display and receive events from you?

Last time I saw "problems" while upgrading xfs, my xterm/dist-upgrade
was unable to display anything, but it was still upgrading things in
background. So xfs finally got restarted at the end of the upgrade and I
got everything working as before. Not nice meanwhile, but seems to be
working fine iirc.

Brice