My favorite pet bug (2004): Yum mishandles Ctrl-C

[Richard Hally]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 16:42 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> Le Jeu 31 août 2006 16:31, Rahul a écrit :
>>> seth vidal wrote:
>>>
>>>> Outside of downloading files you should be able to cancel yum at any
>>>> time in recent cvs pulls.
>>> Users usually want to cancel it only during downloads because the
>>> mirrors or down or they are on a slow connections and things like that.
>> The other slow part is the rpm transaction, and most users are not mad
>> enough to cancel it.
> 
> cancelling during the transaction is a bad, bad idea.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
How about when yum seg faults and leaves the rpm db a "messed up" state 
and you try yum again and it just hangs or loops?
Yes, killall -9 yum works.
I guess the real problem is the seg faults or whatever other reasons yum 
needs to be kill.

Richard