Re: PSA: Do not run 'dnf update' inside GNOME, KDE or any other graphical desktop on Fedora 24

[Andrew Lutomirski]

On Oct 4, 2016 8:52 AM, "Adam Williamson" <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
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.