[601] in athena10
Re: Installer changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Nov 5 12:53:42 2008
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0811051242230.6413@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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At no point did I suggest forcing a reboot, I said it should instruct
users to reboot. People who are clueful enough to kick gdm can do so.
"Did you reboot" is an easy question to ask over the phone, and easy
for users to verify. "Did you restart gdm", not so much.
Alternatively, if "gdm reload" works behind the scenes, why doesn't
the installer take care of that after installing the relevant packages?
-Jon
On Nov 5, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> 2) If users install debathena-workstation, it should instruct them
>> to reboot, so that they get the Debathena login screen. (Yes, I'm
>> sure there are other ways to kick gdm, such as restarting X, but
>> rebooting is the easiest and simplest way)
>
> There’s no reason to force a reboot. Just /etc/init.d/gdm reload;
> you won’t disrupt their work, and the changes will take effect as
> soon as they log out.
>
> Anders
