Yesterday I was trying to update my FC6 laptop. Quite a few updates,
because this system was not used that much recently.
I did not use the updates applet, because I was on a restrictive
network: first establish a VPN connection, then you can use a proxy
through VPN to browse the Internet.
Since this is not my typical location, the proxy was not set in the
desktop configuration.
So I had to run yum manually in a terminal window. First do an "export
http_proxy=..." then run yum.
Halfway through the update, X was killed by some script in one of the
update packages. Of course, that also killed yum, mid-transaction. :-(
Init restarted X, of course, but now I was staring at the gdm login screen.
This is pretty rude, not to mention that killing yum in the middle of a
transaction can leave the system in a messy state.
I'm not sure what needs to be fixed (don't kill X, or make yum or rpm
smarter and don't kill X if the session is being run from within X, or
something like that), I don't even know which package caused that, but
my take is that this is something that needs to be fixed.
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Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
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