Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:25:34 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick 2.2 - 2.4 Upgrade Question Message-ID: <20030923102534.35ba1286.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <1064255439.693.59.camel@gyros> References: <007d01c38135$10f4bbf0$65166ba5@lc.ca.gov> <1064255439.693.59.camel@gyros>
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:30:39 -0400
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@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.
Bye,
Alexander.
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