Bug#457900: xfs: upgrade from xterm freezes X server
On 2008-03-16 01:35 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> 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.
As long as it does not ask any questions during the upgrade, e.g. by
dpkg's conffile prompt, otherwise you lose. :-(
BTW, the restart-on-upgrade option mentioned in xfs.options(5) appears
to be completely ignored, and your prerm script unconditionally stops
the font server before the upgrade. Some people seem to think that this
is a bad idea because the service is then down for several minutes (see
[1], [2]).
Regards,
Sven
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471060
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471051
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