Synaptic insert-cd-upgrade doesn't tell you to expect breakages

[Craig Box]

Synaptic doesn't give you any indication you shouldn't use your computer while
it's distupgrading.

Firefox gets a bit confused if you're running it during an upgrade - see
screenshot :)

All comes right after reboot. Perhaps the dialogs should notify the user not to
use the PC during the upgrade phase.

http://ellusions.meta.net.nz/~crb/ff-breezy.png: http://ellusions.meta.net.nz/~crb/ff-breezy.png

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I think that really firefox is to blame here. While dist-upgrading is certainly
a pretty big change for a ubuntu system, most applications behave better and do
not crash or act funny. Only the mozilla family seems to be a (big) exception here.

But I agree that it should be better communicated that a dist-upgrade is a _big_
operation that affects basicly the whole system and all installed apps/libs.

The fix will have to wait for breezy+1 because we are in string-freeze already,
sorry.

Cheers,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The new dist-upgrader in dapper does display a message to expect problems during a dist-upgrade now.