Thank you for the reply, James; it clarifies the issue. Using 'apt-get upgrade' applied the package upgrades without causing Apache to shutdown uncleanly, and the libapache2-mod-php5 package was unaffected, so Apache restarted without issue. All is well.
Perhaps this is a question is more appropriate for another venue, but is there any means by which to execute 'apt-get dist-upgrade' or 'apt-get upgrade', on the command-line, without updating every package on the system (excepting those that have been kept-back, of course). (I ask because when I reported this issue, I was using Webmin to apply the package upgrades. It seems that the problem is with Webmin's package upgrade implementation, so any insight offered here may be useful to the Webmin developer[s].) It appears that the Ubuntu Update Manager supports this behavior; it enables the user to un-check the boxes next to individual updates. At the same time, those selections do not persist once the Update Manager has been closed (which is the desired behavior). So, how does the Update Manager achieve this? Does it temporarily keep-back the unchecked packages, until the application is closed, and then remove the temporary holds? Or is there some lesser-known argument to 'apt-get' that allows one to specify the packages to be upgraded, explicitly? Thanks again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969426 Title: Apache fails to shutdown cleanly during update and removes libapache2 -mod-php5 in the process, causing service restart to fail due to syntax errors in configuration To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/+bug/969426/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
