On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 06:22:50PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
FYI, I've just yum-updated my rawhide VM to the latest
(but not from the console) and was surprised to lose the connection
while it was happening. Again. It happened to me last week, too.
I got back in via the console and tried to reinstall it via "yum
reinstall openssh-server". That failed (sorry, didn't record the diagnostic).
Just dug a little and found this was reported a week ago:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/722625
It bit me again yesterday, this time while in a screen session
(I thought I'd learn from the earlier mistake). When I logged back in,
somehow the screen session had vanished.
This behaviour from sshd is pretty nasty. I don't recall it ever
doing this before on updates, so why does it start doing it now ?
arguably that bz should be reassigned to sshd, as that's the root cause
for yum freaking out.
Dave