On 2023-09-26 22:52, Steve Langasek wrote: > Trying to think in terms of robust general solutions to this problem, > what if update-manager were to notice when fonts were upgraded, and > when they are, shut down the GUI connection and reinitialize it? > This might require saving a bit of state information in > update-manager in order to be able to restore it.
If I was in a nitpicking mode I would mention that the unreadable character problem also affects the desktop itself and possible open programs (even if the latter is advised against). So it's not obvious to me that the approach you mention would be better. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2034986 Title: some text became unreadable during a distribution upgrade Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Mantic: Confirmed Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Mantic: In Progress Bug description: I was upgrading from Lunar to Mantic the other day and left a couple of applications open during the upgrade process. During the upgrade the text in audacious became unreadable (I'll attach a screenshot) and I seem to recall the title bar of Firefox being unreadable but the contents of web pages still being readable. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:23.10.5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-4.4-generic 6.5.0 Uname: Linux 6.5.0-4-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia zfs ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown CrashDB: ubuntu CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Sep 8 15:39:27 2023 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-10 (1855 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2023-09-06 (2 days ago) VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz: Error: command ['pkexec', 'cat', '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'] failed with exit code 126: Error executing command as another user: Request dismissed VarLogDistupgradeTermlog: mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.meta-release: 2021-05-27T16:30:16.970490 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/2034986/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
