Re: PSA: Do not run 'dnf update' inside GNOME, KDE or any other graphical desktop on Fedora 24
On 10/5/2016 9:37 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 10:56:35 -0500
Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 20:42:11 -0700,
> Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> The one thing I absolutely would advise against: don't do an update
>> over ssh! Unless you use screen or tmux, of course. But just sshing
>> in and running an update is a great way to potentially hit trouble.
> This isn't as bad as you might think. While I mean to use screen, I
> often forget and very rarely have problems as restarting sshd doesn't
> shut down existing ssh sessions.
Right, thats the thing... 99.9% of the time you are just fine. :)
kevin
After a check-update preview, I can count the number of times "yum -y
update &" has ever failed me over the years on one hand.
-jc