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

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Poorly handled upgrade of libc6
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/647278
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