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

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On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 16:56 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On 4 October 2016 at 16:51, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > Running the update process inside a desktop just gives it all the more
> > opportunity to crash somehow. If the terminal app crashes, the update
> > crashes. If the desktop crashes, the update crashes.
> > 
> > I don't want to get in the KDE folks' bad graces, but this likely could
> > also affect KDE's graphical update system, so I'd advise against using
> > that for the present too.
> > 
> 
> 
> Maybe I've just been lucky but I run dnf on a daily basis in a Konsole
> terminal window (under KDE) and have never seen this kind of problem. I
> don't use the graphical updater(s).

Well, as I said it may be package set or hardware dependent, or just a
case of luck. There've been I think at least five or six reports so far
that I've heard of one way or another, which seemed like enough to send
out a mail shot.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
http://www.happyassassin.net
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