On 01/27/2017 09:19 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > With a large update to be made, eg. the 900 package > one I questioned yesterday, are there any suggestions > to avoid possible complications? > > Two examples, I'd like to know of others too: > > I'm not running the most recently installed kernel, > I assume I should reboot to that. > > I normally have a graphical environment running. > Would it be better to: a) shutdown X and update > from a straight CLI environment b) logout from > the GUI and update from a vt CLI c) update from > a GUI login as root or d) doesn't matter, do as > normal -- from an ssh login, "sudo yum update"? > > Thanks, Jon > It is certainly better to upgrade with less things running as a general practice. One should never update from a Remote X type connection via VNC or NX, etc. The absolute safest way to upgrade would be to do so via the console and a keyboard on the actual machine if there is some issue with sshd, etc. But generally, this upgrade should be OK via ssh, etc.
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