Serious bug ... xserver-xorg-core update kills X

[Jurjen Stellingwerff]

Wouter Stomp wrote:
> On 8/22/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> * Ian Soutar:
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>>> Please send out a warning.   It may apply only to this computer but then
>>> again it may be a serious bug that affects others too.
>>>       
>> Not just you - see
>> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/57153 and
>> list of duplicated.
>>
>> The problem seems to have been fixed very fast.
>>
>> Matt
>>     
>
> Is there anything that can be done to prevent these kind of things of
> happening in the future??? For the not so computer literate users,
> breaking X is about the worst thing that can happen and they probably
> don't know how to fix this themselves, even now the actual fix has
> been released.
>
> Wouter.
>
>   

The only way I can image towards better testing is a seperate pre-update
yum repository. And to motivate the more linux knowledgable people to
include this repository in their set. I would like to participate in
tests like that, but I can repair almost any damage to my sofware. The
software could stay two weeks in that yum repository. Before moving it
to the normal updates.

Normal updates could work this way but security updates are the
problematic ones.

Jurjen.
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