Bug#457900: xfs: upgrade from xterm freezes X server
* Brice Goglin [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:58:57 +0100]:
> Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > * Brice Goglin [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:31:42 +0100]:
> >> What do you have in /etc/X11/fs/xfs.options ?
> > I don't have such file (only a "config" one in the same directory).
> Ok, thanks. xfs isn't supposed to restart in this case.
> I guess the bug is caused by the postinst script being the default one
> provided by dh_installinit and thus restarting the daemon on each
> upgrade. We have some specific scripts to avoid this (only restart on
> upgrade if specified in /etc/X11/fs/xfs.options) but it looks like we
> don't actually use them, I am looking at fixing this.
Aha. Well, what the scripts really ought to do is stop prior to
unpacking and starting on configure, but just restart on configure (so
that there's a minimum time when there is not a font server).
And if you do that, maybe that behavior could be made the default for
xfs.options.
Cheers,
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