On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 06:20:11PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> today I decided to upgrade from bookworm to trixie/testing[1][2]. I ran
> the upgrade in a gnome-terminal, and of course all gnome terminals in
> the system crashed halfway through the upgrade[1][3].
Foreword: I'm pretty happy with Gn
On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 07:43:23PM +, Richard Lewis wrote:
> > today I decided to upgrade from bookworm to trixie/testing[1][2]. I ran
> > the upgrade in a gnome-terminal, and of course all gnome terminals in
> > the system crashed halfway through the upgrade[1][3].
>
> not much consolation, b
Hi Enrico,
* Enrico Zini [2024-12-29 18:20]:
Unexpectedly, apt and dpkg kept doing their thing in their own headless
wonderland. I tried to track progress via top and pstree, killed a
couple of whiptail processes[4], and eventually decided to kill apt and
restart things from a new terminal.
Y
Enrico Zini writes:
> [5] Do we have a thing that clones the running system into a throwaway
> VM?
systemd-nspawn claims to support this --
https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
> On 29 Dec 2024, at 20:20, Enrico Zini wrote:
>
> Hello,
Hi,
>
> today I decided to upgrade from bookworm to trixie/testing[1][2]. I ran
> the upgrade in a gnome-terminal, and of course all gnome terminals in
> the system crashed halfway through the upgrade[1][3].
This is strange. I’m not
Enrico Zini writes:
> today I decided to upgrade from bookworm to trixie/testing[1][2]. I ran
> the upgrade in a gnome-terminal, and of course all gnome terminals in
> the system crashed halfway through the upgrade[1][3].
not much consolation, but: i supose this is why the release-notes
recommen
Hi Enrico,
Dist upgrade is something I'd prefer to do in a terminal muxer, e.g.,
tmux, screen, zellij, or wrappers like byobu. Even if the whole
desktop environment crashed during the upgrade, you can still check
the status in tty without losing the process handling the stdout/err
of apt.
I thin
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