yum update can commit suicide

[Ray Strode]

Hi,

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 14:21 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> Yesterday I was trying to update my FC6 laptop. Quite a few updates, 
> because this system was not used that much recently.
...
> 
> Halfway through the update, X was killed by some script in one of the 
> update packages. Of course, that also killed yum, mid-transaction. :-( 
> Init restarted X, of course, but now I was staring at the gdm login screen.
> 

Yea, it's a really nasty bug.  You can track its progress here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218207


--Ray