Hi Jonathan, Well, if my sister cancelled out the upgrade it must affect some people? Scary warning messages that can be ignored are not really 'user friendly' :) I, for one, had also never seen that warning before and had to ask about it.
Regards, Phill. On 25 May 2013 05:30, Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 05/24/2013 07:16 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > > > if this is an expected result, if it is not what could be expected as > > an upgrade?. Is it lubuntu only or cross flavours? Do we need more > > tests? > > I think it's based on xscreensaver being around and active during an > upgrade. So if other flavours have xscreensaver installed and running, > they would (as far as I know) see the same message for the same reason. > > From memory, the issue the message is trying to prevent is that, if you > upgrade it "underneath" a running copy, that copy can "get confused" and > can lock the screen and become basically impossible to unlock, which > makes continuing the install/upgrade rather hard :) > > If we care enough, I can try to dig into the xscreensaver package > maintainer scripts and find more details... I think that's where this > message is generated... but I honestly didn't consider that it was "a > problem", to me it is just part of the upgrade process. > > Jonathan > > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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