Quick 2.2 - 2.4 Upgrade Question

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 04:25, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:30:39 -0400
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:11, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> > > Can I execute the portupgrade commands from within a terminal window
> > > while running Gnome?  Or will cause conflicts and grief when running
> > > applications are upgraded?  Maybe it's better to upgrade from a regular
> > > console session?  What do you recommend?
> > 
> > I recommend logging out of X (or at least out of GNOME).  To upgrade to
> > 2.4.
> 
> I did it without logging out. At a specific point you don't have any
> entry in the applications menu anymore, but after the update you just
> have to relogin and everything is fine. The worst thing is a segfault of
> a running GNOME application, so don't do important things.

Right.  I did my laptop while logged in, but weird things start to
happen when bonobo-activation-server goes south.  And, like you said,
once you update gnomvfs2, the panel goes empty.  For easy of overall
experience (given the complexity of this upgrade), it's best to do it
from a vty.

Joe

> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
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