On 11/30/22, to...@tuxteam.de <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 12:36:43AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > [...] > >> What I have noticed in Debian that I do not at all like, is when I boot >> to >> multi-user.target for the specific purpose of apt or apt-get upgrading, >> even when >> systemctl get-default returns multi-user.target, that if the DM is >> upgraded, X >> gets started shortly following. :( > > Oh, something I forgot: besides no DM, my init system is still > SysV. This might or might not contribute to stability through > simplicity.
I'm on SystemD and bounce between XFCE4 and LXQt. Mine has never done anything like this in many years of playing with anything Linux. At this second, I have bits of GNOME installed for themes. In the past, I've had more than that, but I must have moved away from those packages. A quick "apt-mark showinstall" says pinentry-gnome3 is the only GNOME3 named package currently installed. > My important apps (Emacs, then Emacs, then dunno ;-) don't lose > data "just because the system goes down", so I'm pretty relaxed. Once in a very rare while, upgrade will stall until I say yes or no when it asks if I want to restart exim and a second program that I can't remember. > Still, it never happened to me, and I dist-upgrade roughly once > a week. I run "apt-get upgrade". It will take me a few days to remember to do so, but I'll try both "apt upgrade" and dist-upgrade. Dist-upgrade was already a to-do item. Will be my first use of that one so who knows what else might possibly go wrong... or not. Wondering out loud as I exit Stage Right: Is there any kind of trace/strace or whatever that fancy deal is to see if that outputs anything? Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *