severity 589707 important tags 589707 + unreproducible thanks On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:51:03 +0000 ow...@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote:
> retitle 589707 Running mono apps can prevent upgrade from working > thanks > > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 11:50 +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > I don't think you've installed it fully - mono-gac should never be > > marked as pn. > > > > Are you sure mono-runtime is installed? > > Yes, it was installed. The reason for that status was that no > mono-related packages could be fully installed, they all crashed at > some point during the installation. > > However, I found the reason: I had Tomboy running. Ripping out all > mono-related packages, killing the tomboy process, and reinstalling, > allowed mono to work again. > > Apparently, some mono upgrades require that all processes running > under an old runtime version be stopped. Retitling accordingly. No > idea how to detect or fix something like this – the only reason I > have mono installed is because of Tomboy. I just upgraded from Mono 2.6.3 to 2.6.7 while having a plenty of Mono applications running (like Smuxi, Tomboy, Banshee, etc) and had no issues with starting new applications nor with the currently running ones. I believe though that the .wapi stuff could be related. Have you used fakeroot or something that fiddles with HOME? as that can pretty badly break Mono, see: http://pkg-mono.alioth.debian.org/cli-policy/ch-mono.html#s-mono-disable-shm As I can't reproduce this issue I am setting severity to important for now. PS: please don't use -qu...@b.d.o next time, I had to copy my reply from the webinterface of the BTS... -- Regards, Mirco 'meebey' Bauer PGP-Key ID: 0xEEF946C8 FOSS Developer mee...@meebey.net http://www.meebey.net/ PEAR Developer mee...@php.net http://pear.php.net/ Debian Developer mee...@debian.org http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
