X restart while updating?

[Jim Cornette]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> Just ran yumex in my fc7t4 partition and while it was running the
> transaction (not sure how far along it was), the X server
> suddenly restarted. It may have actually gotten finished, because the
> rpm database gives no indication of being scrogged, but this
> is certainly behavior I never saw before. Has this happened to
> anyone else?
> 

Not recently but in the past. Usually extreme upgrades from one distro 
level to another respawn X during some package update phase.

If you check your cache, there might be some packages in the cache. When 
Yum exits abruptly, like with X respawning, yum does not finish but bails.

What does 'package-cleanup --problems' output?

Jim

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