Stephen R Laniel wrote:
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:30:35AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
But attacking this problem from another angle: I'm assuming it's not a
good idea to do an upgrade from within X. Is that accurate? If I ran
the upgrade within an xterm window, I'd probably not have this alignment
problem at all.
There's no problem upgrading within X. I've done it for
years. It's just that if you upgrade various X-related
packages, you'll want to restart X. But if you upgrade the
kernel, you'll probably want to reboot your whole system.
Great to know! Yes, I certainly understand the need to restart X for X
packages getting updated, same for reboots for kernels.
I used to actually do this procedure:
1. edit /etc/inittab so that the computer boots into a runlevel I've
created that doesn't include X
2. reboot the machine
3. ssh into the machine and run the update
But that seemed like a lot of hassle. I seems "more natural" to do the
update at the console anyway.
Whoa. You don't need to do all that. For one thing, steps 1
and 2 are redundant: if you really wanted to drop into a
lower runlevel, you can just type 'init [runlevel]' to drop
to that level right away; you don't need to wait for a
reboot.
Hmm... I had attempted to do exactly this with telinit, but it never
worked cleanly on this system and it was never anything I wanted to
chase down. I haven't tried init itself to switch levels. And as
upgrade was the primary reason I've ever done so, I probably won't need
to mess with this much at all.
As for your earlier problem about scrolling through the
terminal, you can just shift+PageUp/PageDown to scroll.
Something else I didn't know. I'm learning lots of good stuff today!
Thanks,
Rick Reynolds
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