On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 10:52 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 20:05 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Just ran yumex in my fc7t4 partition and while it was running the > > transaction (not sure how far along it was), the X server > > suddenly restarted. It may have actually gotten finished, because the > > rpm database gives no indication of being scrogged, but this > > is certainly behavior I never saw before. Has this happened to > > anyone else? > > We've seen this a few times during the 7 cycle. We eventually tracked > it down to: > > * new version of dbus installed, adds new config file format that old > (running) version doesn't understand > * new selinux policy installed, pokes dbus to reread its config file > * old dbus is still running, fails to parse new config file, exits > * all of gnome dies with it > * X server exits because all clients have exited > * gdm restarts > > No good way of fixing it, really. I suppose you could try upgrading > dbus, restarting X, then doing the rest of the upgrade, which might > work. Alternatively, update from runlevel 3. Of course, you may be seeing something else entirely. - ajax -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
