On 07/07/2017 06:34 AM, Philip Ashmore wrote: > Hi there. > > I checked for updates in Synaptic and saw a slew of preliminary stable > updates. > > It didn't occur to me that running a Trinity update inside of Trinity > might be a bad idea. > > That is, until my desktop disappeared. > > I did a pstree check to see if the update had finished, which it had, > probably because Synaptic was killed. > > Now there is no record of the updates in Synaptics history and the > updates are no longer present - did it succeed? > > Just a heads up! > > P.S. should I do anything to try to recover the update history? > Do I need to be worried? > > Regards, > Philip Ashmore Thanks for the info, I am using Stretch and preliminary stable builds, I normally update while using my workstation, not necessarily best practices, spoiled by Debian. So I tried it to see...oopps, performed exactly as you posted. This is not my expected behavior, I noticed that Debian was doing a security update on some xorg, xorg-server stuff..Nics suggestion fixed the issue, having the xserver stop while working is, hmmm..stressful. Suggest others update from a non X environment this time. greg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting