Losing ssh connection during apt upgrade

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2021-01-31 at 14:13 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> So your belief is that if I open a Gnome Terminal on machine A and
> then ssh into machine B and run a script in machine B, that something
> that is sent back to the terminal could blank the display (not just
> the terminal window) that is running Gnome terminal?

Dunno about anyone else, but I've been using ssh for about twenty
years. I've used it to and from Unixen from Sparcstations to Raspberry
Pis, embedded and otherwise, proprietary and open, on multiple
different distributions and multiple different window managers on those
distributions. I've used ssh direct, with tmux, with screen, over VPNs,
tunnels and proxies. I have opened ssh sessions to systems running
headless, systems running window managers, and systems running only
text consoles. I've opened sessions to systems that I know for a fact
were blanked at the time, and to systems I know for a fact blanked
while I was working on them remotely and to systems where I had no idea
whether they were blank or not or could even blank at all.

And I have never, ever seen a remote screen blank cause a local screen
blank.

Make of that what you will.

Regards, K.

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