On 2013-09-30 04:03:54 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 01:15 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:20:39AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > > > > During important upgrades such as locales, I avoid doing things > > > > like starting an xterm... Usually, already running applications > > > > > > You do system upgrades WITH X running? :( > > > > > > If there is a problem with the upgrade of X, you could end up with a > > > borked system, or one that is going to be a PITA to fix. > > > > If something should cause such an issue by an update while X is running, > > then I would restore from a backup and then do the backup with X not > > running. > > (We're talking about an important upgrade. i.e 6.0 -> 7.0)
I am not. I'm running Debian unstable. But an upgrade of a set of packages can still be an important upgrade, e.g. in case of transition related to the X server. However if something goes wrong here, it should still be possible to restart the upgrade from a text virtual console or via SSH. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- 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/20131002085128.gb25...@xvii.vinc17.org
