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