Weird yum or rpm effect since some days in F19

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hello joachim,

On 10/17/2013 04:31 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> having a very weird effect since some days: installing a new package
> with yum or rpm inside a gnome3-session resets the gnome-shell some
> seconds after the installation has been done (the screen flickers,
> window frames disappear and re-appear, like a gnome-shell restart).
> Sometimes, the gnome3 session crashes so it loggs out (with the "oh, no,
> something..." screen).
>
> This happens too in a gnome-classsic session.
>
> No such effect inside other session types (mate for example)
>
> Anybody sees this too?

i use kde, so i would not see what you do.

i will make a few suggestions, as you do not mention doing such.

1 - are you running yum as root?

2 - are you using 'sudo' or 'su' to run yum?

3 - have you tried booting to level 3 to run yum?

4 - anything in logs?


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