[maemo-users] WiFi borked after update

From: Marius Vollmer marius.vollmer at nokia.com
Date: Wed Oct 8 18:38:20 EEST 2008
"ext hendrik at topoi.pooq.com" <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 05:28:19PM +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote:
>> "ext hendrik at topoi.pooq.com" <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Debian warns not to do an upgrade over X, because X will go down and 
>> > up when it is reinstalled, [...]
>> 
>> Never happened to me, and I would expect the X packagers to be better
>> than that.  The xserver-xorg.postinst is the mother of all maintainer
>> scripts (almost 2000 lines), so I don't know what it does, but I don't
>> think it will restart the server this side of 1980.
>
> It was included in the instructions for the sarge->etch upgrade, if I 
> recall correctly.

They say, "these services may well be terminated during the upgrade",
which is different from your "X will go down and up"... :-)

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