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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Dangerous dbus update for testing

In case you haven't noticed the latest news item http://www.archlinux.org/news/385/ :

There's a dangerous dbus update coming up for the testing repository. The package itself isn't so special, as it works fine, but the fact that every dbus-daemon process on your system will crash during the upgrade can lead to unpleasant surprises.

Testing users: please be aware of this and run your upcoming upgrades from a plain text console instead of from X. One of the unpleasant surprises is that xorg-server in testing goes down with dbus while it's upgrading, leading to loss of important work or an interrupted package upgrade process.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Dangerous dbus update for testing

BTW, there's some ongoing discussions on the ML for those who are interested:

http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 05238.html
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-gen … 17020.html

despairblue

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-01-14

Posts: 19

Re: Dangerous dbus update for testing

How are going to handle that if it goes to stable. Is this behaviour inevitable or a bug?

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Dangerous dbus update for testing

How are going to handle that if it goes to stable. Is this behaviour inevitable or a bug?

The crashing xorg-server is in testing and will never make it to extra
(Jan de Groot - arch-dev-public mailing list, 3/12/08)

http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 05242.html

despairblue

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-01-14

Posts: 19

Re: Dangerous dbus update for testing

Thank you.