On 2025-08-10, Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 16:14:16 -0400, Default User wrote: >> I was doing the upgrade in Gnome, using the Gnome >> GUI terminal. While apt was downloading/installing >> packages, the terminal suddenly disappeared. Not >> lock up. Not freeze. Just disappeared completely! > > For the archives, and for anyone else reading in real time: it is > strongly recommended that you do NOT perform an upgrade while logged > into a Desktop Environment.
That's always been explicit in the Release Notes; yet after reading them for Trixie, I didn't see that recommendation. Maybe I missed it somehow. > The best choice is to log out of your Desktop Environment entirely, > then login on a console as root. Perform the upgrade from there, > and reboot. This may mean you need to write down the commands, or > copy them into a text file for reference from the console, if you > can't remember them. > >
