On Sun 19 May 2013 at 21:02:36 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > 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?
Personally, I never upgrade or dist-upgrade under any circumstances with an X session running. > [1] there are rumors that a dist-upgrade on Ubuntu is not as smooth as > on Debian Mere rumours :). It keeps the temperature high, even though it may not be known how either distribution works and what the cause of a faiure in upgrading may be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130519191605.GD23758@desktop
