Marco Shinobu Matsumura wrote: > > .. I think it`d be interesting to describe what > was my mistake: after following all the "how to update from an existing > debian-1.2" instructions, I started dselect in a Xterm, and in the > middle of the process dselect asked: "In order to upgrade to XFree3.3 I > must stop X, so may I kill it?", and I answered, "Of course not!", and > then, after dselect complained and finished his work, I wanted to > restart dselect at the console, so I... EXITED FVWM2-95, which killed > X, which in turn prompted XDM to restart it, and finaly this caused my > monitor to start blinking... I was just wondering wether it was not a > comom mistake which should be warned about. The instructions mentioned > that one dselect run would be sufficient. OK, but then you must run text > mode dselect.
Yeah, this is a common problem. You should not upgrade x with dselect when running it in an xterm. Actually, I believe to have seen it once, somewhere in some documentation, but I can't remember where. Maybe I just remember it from neing mentioned on this list. It is probably justified to say that this isn't very well documented :-( I am currently working on a sort of HOWTO for dselect. It seems to be a good idea to include a separate section dedicated to possible x hassles. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
