* Brice Goglin [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:58:57 +0100]: > Adeodato Simó wrote: > > * Brice Goglin [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:31:42 +0100]:
> >> What do you have in /etc/X11/fs/xfs.options ? > > I don't have such file (only a "config" one in the same directory). > Ok, thanks. xfs isn't supposed to restart in this case. > I guess the bug is caused by the postinst script being the default one > provided by dh_installinit and thus restarting the daemon on each > upgrade. We have some specific scripts to avoid this (only restart on > upgrade if specified in /etc/X11/fs/xfs.options) but it looks like we > don't actually use them, I am looking at fixing this. Aha. Well, what the scripts really ought to do is stop prior to unpacking and starting on configure, but just restart on configure (so that there's a minimum time when there is not a font server). And if you do that, maybe that behavior could be made the default for xfs.options. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment: the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. -- Jorge Luis Borges