Re: Most system update requires system reboot or session restart

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On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 06:20:37PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> A far bigger problem that needing to reboot is that
> dnf seems to sometimes wack libraries that are in
> use and make my X session and/or system crash in the middle of
> an update. I never had that happen with yum, but
> I've seen it a couple of times with dnf (though I
> suspect it may have more to do with systemd linking
> in every library on the system rather than being a
> tiny "init" program with no dependencies :-).

Neither systemd nor dnf are to blame -- but wayland is a lot more
fragile in this regard under the current design.

In any case, I've gotten in the habit of running dnf update in a tmux
session as protection against this.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fedora Project Leader
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