On 2013-05-20 10:45 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 19 mai 13, 22:35:03, Celejar wrote:
>>
>> The release notes are actually somewhat unclear, and I was considering
>> filing a bug report against them. The implication is that there's no
>> recommendation against upgrading from an X session started directly,
>> without any display manager. Is this actually what is meant?
>
> Yes. Restarting the *dm (due to the libc upgrade implied with basically
> any dist-upgrade) will in most cases terminate your X session.
Which is why display managers other than gdm are exempted from the list
of services to be restarted after libc or pam upgrades.
> Of course, you may choose not to restart the *dm and hope that it's
> own upgrade doesn't *also* trigger a service restart (but instead
> whatever else is needed for it to reload its configuration).
I'm pretty sure that display managers which pull down your X session on
upgrades won't be very welcome in Debian.
> Because of all the possible ways to have your X session terminated,
> combined with the change from gdm to gdm3, I think the recommendation is
> reasonable.
Ack.
Cheers,
Sven
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