reassign 553362 libc6 thanks Le vendredi 30 octobre 2009 à 11:21 -0400, Michael Gilbert a écrit : > i recently upgraded a machine from lenny to sid. in the process, it > was stated that some services needed restarted (i think in order to > upgrade libc), which including gdm. i figured i might as well do it. > > however, in the process gdm came up with a dialog that said it could > not restart because an x server was already running on :0. the two > options were "yes", which tried to launch a new x server over and over > again and eventually failed; and "no", which tried to launch on :0 > again, but failed. both options flash the screen a bunch and are > not very professional looking. > > is there any better way that this could be done? is a gdm restart > really needed? would it be ok to use the present gdm and wait for the > user to reboot (or at least log out) to launch the new version?
Indeed, it is not necessary to restart gdm. A reload should be enough and it will avoid killing the current session. Dear libc maintainers: please see how libpam0g.postinst does. There is an exception for gdm, for which a reload action is invoked instead of a full restart. Thanks, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling
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