On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 01:57 -0500, James Antill wrote: > > This was one of the problems PackageKit tries to solve. > > In it's usual way, of ignoring the real (but harder to solve) problems > and concentrating on a couple of very simple desktop cases and > implementing the most complicated solution possible ... and then > declaring the problem fixed, after minimal testing. Excuse me? Could you care to explain please? > > It also stops you shutting down > > using a system and session inhibit if the transaction is an a > > non-cancellable state. > > Which isn't really helpful, esp. as the messages I've seen say > something like "Some program is stopping you from doing this" ... pretty > much guaranteeing the next words out of the users mouth will be "die > when I tell you too, scum sucking laptop, die; die; die!". Right, and the sort of unstable user to say to their laptop "scum sucking laptop, die; die; die!" probably deserves to rebuild their rpmdb on next reboot. > > If you /sbin/shutdown as root, or suffer a power failure without a UPS, > > then all bets are off :-) > > Or press the power button Power button goes through HAL, so we catch this too. > or rpm gets OOMed, etc. etc. If you get OOMed, all bets are off. But if you're in OOM, you've got bigger problems on your plate. Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
