On 2016-12-31 11:05, Richard Brown wrote:
On 30 December 2016 at 13:17, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
Does screen survive when started from a graphical terminal?
Yes, it most certainly does
I thought you needed to have it running from console. That's what I do:
ctrl-alt-f1 login as root start "screen new" ctrl-alt-f7 screen atach (I use tmux, rather) run zypper.
Which is, effectively, running zypper in console.
That seems rather over engineered IMNSHO
I'll test your way forcing an X crash, time permitting, and comment back.
This is a stupid way of doing things, of course doesn't do the upgrade as completely as a dup --n-a-v-c would, but it does avoid the problems of desktop crashes during upgrades borking upgrades using a graphical tool at least.
In the future, I'm most excited about the prospect of proper 'transactional updates' for Tumbleweed, such as you can see working in concept here: https://github.com/thkukuk/transactional-update
Requires btrfs (snapshots and volumes).
Yes, it does, and the problem with that is what exactly? It's been our default for a while now and today is the last day of 2016, not 2006 or 1996, everyone SHOULD be using btrfs.
No, I can not agree with that. Simply put, I do not trust btrfs reliability, and many agree with this. When btrfs has been stable for 10 years (with nearly no new features), I'll reconsider. I have heard too many bad histories of problems. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)