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Re: Update Debian 9 to 10

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On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 01:12:15PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> Actually, the paragraph I referred to in §4.1.5, but did not quote,
> is missing from buster (but was in stretch):
> 
>  "4.1.5 Prepare a safe environment for the upgrade
> 
>  "The distribution upgrade should be done either locally from a
>   textmode virtual console (or a directly connected serial terminal),
>   or remotely via an ssh link."
> 
> I don't use a DM of DE, so I just don't start X. I don't know the
> correct way for DEs etc.

Log out of the desktop environment.  Then press Ctrl-Alt-F2 (or something
similar) to get to a virtual console, and do the upgrade there.

Stopping the Display Manager shouldn't be necessary.  The reboot will
take care of restarting it anyway.

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Update Debian 9 to 10 Thanos Katsiolis <kls.thanos@gmail.com> - 2021-12-09 15:50 +0100
  Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-09 16:40 +0100
    Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Thanos Katsiolis <kls.thanos@gmail.com> - 2021-12-09 18:30 +0100
      Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-09 20:20 +0100
        Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-12-09 21:30 +0100
        Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 11:30 +0100
          Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Thanos Katsiolis <kls.thanos@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 17:30 +0100
            Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-12-10 18:20 +0100
              Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Thanos Katsiolis <kls.thanos@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 19:00 +0100
            Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 18:20 +0100
              Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-11 10:40 +0100
                Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Thanos Katsiolis <kls.thanos@gmail.com> - 2021-12-13 11:10 +0100
            Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-12-10 20:00 +0100
              Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Thanos Katsiolis <kls.thanos@gmail.com> - 2021-12-13 11:10 +0100
                Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-12-13 13:40 +0100
  Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 11:30 +0100
  Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Thanos Katsiolis <kls.thanos@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 19:50 +0100
  Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Thanos Katsiolis <kls.thanos@gmail.com> - 2021-12-13 17:20 +0100
    Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2021-12-13 20:00 +0100
      Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Thanos Katsiolis <kls.thanos@gmail.com> - 2021-12-14 14:20 +0100
        Re: Update Debian 9 to 10 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-15 21:40 +0100

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