On Oct 4, 2016 8:52 AM, "Adam Williamson" <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
Recently several reports of people getting 'duplicated packages' and
'kernel updates not working' have come through to us in QA from Fedora
24 users. I managed to get one reporter to explain more specifically
what happened, and it sounds a lot like what's happening is that
something in the 'dnf update' process can cause a GNOME or X crash,
possibly depending on hardware or package set installed. When that
happens, the update process is killed and does not complete cleanly,
which is why you get 'duplicated packages' and other odd results.
How hard would it be to make dnf do the rpm transaction inside a proper
system-level service (transient or otherwise)? This would greatly increase
robustness against desktop crashes, ssh connection loss, KillUserProcs, and
other damaging goofs.
I once hosed a RHEL5 system when an ssh terminal running yum died. Sigh.