Re: PSA: Do not run 'dnf update' inside GNOME, KDE or any other graphical desktop on Fedora 24

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This is the first I've heard of any recommendation like this. If running `dnf upgrade` from a graphical console is such a big and well-known risk, then why isn't it mentioned in the dnf documentation? I've posted about this on the dnf Bugzilla.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381785

I'm having a hard time finding anything about this in the Fedora Wiki either. If you could recommend any particular reading that could explain this some more, I'd appreciate it.

I tried to read every message in this email thread, but I'm still not clear: It seems the bug that inspired the original post is based on certain graphics hardware, but you still say it's best not to run system updates from a graphical session at all anyway. Is most of the risk related specifically to X and the large software stack that runs on it, or is it simply a problem of numbers, where more running processes means more things could crash while dnf installs updates? Fedora Workstation users are apparently recommended to use GNOME Software's reboot/update feature; what's the recommended way to update all packages on instances of Fedora Server or Fedora Cloud?
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