On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:24:20AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > apps are expected to keep running during upgrades, then fix the > upgrade process so that apps can't run during the upgrade. Don't just > filter out those crashes as if they aren't happening.
For years, Mozilla and then Firefox would start showing the strangest errors if it wasn't restarted during an upgrade. It was easy to forget or otherwise not notice Firefox among the many updates being performed, and wonder why four or five days later dialog boxes or menus weren't working correctly. (Especially since the person performing the upgrade may be on a different continent than the person running Firefox. Nothing says they're the same person...) At some point Firefox added a handy dialog box to alert running instances that it has been upgraded and should be restarted to run safely. The person using Firefox simply clicks "restart" and six seconds later is back where he or she left off and the system runs reliably again. Perhaps LibreOffice could adopt this mechanism; if it is not prepared to be updated while running, it could be adjusted to inotify a sentinal file to know to display a "please restart" dialog and button to avoid awkward interactions and crashes. Thanks
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