On Sun, 19 May 2013 21:02:36 +0300
Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> 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?

The release notes are actually somewhat unclear, and I was considering
filing a bug report against them. The implication is that there's no
recommendation against upgrading from an X session started directly,
without any display manager. Is this actually what is meant?

Celejar


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