Tim:
I can't say that I have that experience, it's very rare that an update breaks something on my system. Sounds like you have something wrong with your system, more than Fedora in general.
Jim Lewis:
What does "very rare" mean? So it has happened to you on occasion?
Way back on Fedora 17, playback of some video files became unstable with some yum update. I can't recall anything since then.
It happens to me on occasion and certainly does to others as well and so I don't trust it. I want an update to improve my system, not make it worse.
Fair enough, but avoiding a problem (while accumulating others, such as numerous security flaws), instead of fixing a fault (or several) by installing updates and debugging anything that screwed up, isn't really a good way of doing things.
The problem is still there and no I have not rebooted yet.
Well, that well may be the problem and solution, but can't tell without trying. Generally speaking, there is more than one terminal installed, so you can use another one to work on fixing a broken one.
Some (few) updates require a reboot, generally just kernel-related updates. Some updates do need you to log out and back in again. Some updates require you to quit using whatever software has been updated, and restart it. Some don't seem to require that, at all, you can carry on using the prior version until you want to quit it.
Hi Tim,
I have been running Fedora 14 since it came out and have never installed an update (well, okay, I manually installed the Shellshock patch and do run my own custom kernel). I'm still waiting for an intrusion or something to go wrong. I am behind a pretty good firewall and don't do anything really stupid with my systems. I have to say 14 was and is the best Fedora they ever came out with.
Basically every time I run an update, on anything, something goes wrong. I was great at IBM as a quality control person because nothing ever got past me! But I didn't have many friends on the dev team. Until I got on the dev team.
Can you point me to where one of these other terminals is? The only reason I can still use one or make more is because there were some already opened before I ran the update. My attempts to find a way to create a terminal by not using a previous one have all failed.
Since I fully expect to have no terminals when I finally reboot I have opened Bug 1196472 for this issue. They have already begun to look at the problem.
Jim Lewis