Public bug reported: A distribution upgrade of Mythbuntu 10.04 to 10.10 results in the following message which is decidedly not user friendly. It shows up during installation of the 10.10 packages:
"xscreensaver and xlockmore must be restarted before upgrading One or more running instances of xscreensaver or xlockmore have been detected on this system. Because of incompatible library changes, the upgrade ofthe GNU libc library will leave you unable to authenticate to these programs. You should arrange for these programs to be restarted or stopped before continuing this upgrade, to avoid locking your users out of their current sessions." How in the world are non-technical users possibly supposed to know what to do? They won't have a clue how to stop those processes. Even if they think to search "xscreensaver stop ubuntu," none of the search results are of any use. In fact, the only way I could figure out how to stop it was to find the process ID and then kill it. Novice users are not likely to know how to find process id's. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Sep 24 22:43:31 2010 InstallationMedia: Mythbuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091027) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: eglibc ** Affects: eglibc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid -- Poorly handled upgrade of libc6 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/647278 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs