From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 01:26:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A8DF16A4B3 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 01:26:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com (mailout03.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 909DE43F3F for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 01:26:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd10.aul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1A1iUg-0007uY-06; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:25:58 +0200 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (VrmT8YZCQeLjc86oG98IUgfM8Ad1og4G3Jui8FC4iGDhodfYD+mcUq@[217.83.26.12]) by fmrl10.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 1A1iUJ-0Cawtc0; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:25:35 +0200 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (Magelan [192.168.1.1]) h8N8PY8i003980; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:25:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h8N8PYFw000953; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:25:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:25:34 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Joe Marcus Clarke 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Seen: false X-ID: VrmT8YZCQeLjc86oG98IUgfM8Ad1og4G3Jui8FC4iGDhodfYD+mcUq@t-dialin.net cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick 2.2 - 2.4 Upgrade Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:26:11 -0000 On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:30:39 -0400 Joe Marcus Clarke 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. -- It's not a bug, it's tradition! http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7