On Du, 19 mai 13, 18:11:56, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote: > In release notes it says: > > "You should not upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from an X session > managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc. on the machine you are upgrading. That is > because each of those services may well be terminated during the upgrade, > which can result in an inaccessible system that is only half-upgraded. Use of > the GNOME application update-manager is strongly discouraged for upgrades to > new releases, as this tool relies on the desktop session remaining active. "| > > So i wonder why can ubuntu dist upgrade dist from within an X session?
I have no idea what Ubuntu can or can not do[1], but I can assure you it is safer not to do it from within an X session. Besides, do you know how many ways there are in Debian to start an X session? I know of at least 5 in common use (but there are probably more). Care to extensively test all of them for the next release? [1] there are rumors that a dist-upgrade on Ubuntu is not as smooth as on Debian Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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