On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:49:26PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > Package: release-notes > Severity: wishlist > > > Hello, > > I want to ask, if it would make sense to advice the user, to > close any running X server when doing an dist-upgrade. > > Pro: > you would reduce the risk of getting an unaccessable system, > when during new startup of e.g. gdm an error occures and X > is not responding/is hanging and you cannot switch back to > virtual console. > (I did a test dist-upgrade some time ago, and I had exactly > this problem: when restarting gdm, the system hung up, keyboard > was not responding, I had no chance to switch to virtual console. > See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604724)
I have this problem in squeeze even without doing any upgrade. After logging out from an X session that was started fro gdm, the system is hung up as described. Perhaps the real solution would be to fix gdm? I have no way to shut down X as recommended. The only thing I can do is to boot the system without X in the first place. Of course, this is already a squeeze system, so it may not be relevant to the lenny->squeeze upgrade. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
