On 27/06/11 22:27, D G Teed wrote: > If you run Debian on the desktop, note that the current updates > coming down the pipe for 6.0.2 with safe-upgrades > may include an xserver package update (did for me, and > mine was up to date before). > > If you run your safe-upgrade from within an X windows > session, it will cause X to restart, interrupting the update. > If this happens, only some of your package updates > will have completed and some will be incomplete. > Nothing tragic will happen, you just have to run safe-upgrade > again outside of X environment (not in xterm, etc.) > > I suspect for the same reasons use of Synaptic > to upgrade will also fail, but I did not verify its > behavior. > > What is a good way to upgrade desktop systems > for this case, someone might be asking? > > If you run desktop, use Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get into > a virtual terminal, login, and do your upgrade from > in there.� During upgrade to 6.0.2 packages, X will > restart, shutting down any X applications open > at the time without warning.� Use Ctrl+Alt+F8 > to return to the X console once again. > >
I've never had a desktop (KDE) session crash from an upgrade, dist-upgrades are different. # apt-get -d upgrade; apt-get upgrade Is how I always upgrade. apt apt-listchanges apt-utils base-files comerr-dev dbus dbus-x11 deborphan dpkg dpkg-dev e2fslibs e2fsprogs git kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdenetwork-filesharing kdoctools klibc-utils kopete krb5-multidev libcomerr2 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-1-dev libdpkg-perl libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssrpc4 libk5crypto3 libkadm5clnt-mit7 libkadm5srv-mit7 libkdb5-4 libkde3support4 libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkdeui5 libkdewebkit5 libkdnssd4 libkfile4 libkhtml5 libkimproxy4 libkio5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libklibc libkmediaplayer4 libknewstuff2-4 libknewstuff3-4 libknotifyconfig4 libkntlm4 libkopete4 libkparts4 libkpty4 libkrb5-3 libkrb5-dev libkrb5support0 libkrosscore4 libkrossui4 libktexteditor4 libkunitconversion4 libkutils4 libldap-2.4-2 libmms0 libnepomuk4 libnepomukquery4a libplasma3 libqt4-assistant libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer libqt4-gui libqt4-help libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-qt3support libqt4-script libqt4-scripttools libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-sql-sqlite libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-webkit libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libruby1.8 libsmbclient libsolid4 libss2 libthreadweaver4 libtiff4 libtiff4-dev libtiffxx0c2 libwbclient0 linux-base linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686 linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 linux-libc-dev python-apt python-apt-common python-gudev ruby1.8 samba-common samba-common-bin xserver-xorg-video-tseng The xserver package isn't one I use, perhaps that's the difference. I also normally shut down any critical apps before running updates in a konsole. For dist-upgrades I logout, login to a console session as root and shutdown the x-server before dist-upgrade. Cheers -- "I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust." ~ Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e0881f9.8050...@gmail.com
