X restart while updating?

Ray Strode rstrode at redhat.com
Thu May 17 15:00:06 UTC 2007


Hi,
> We've seen this a few times during the 7 cycle.  We eventually tracked
> it down to:
> 
> * new version of dbus installed, adds new config file format that old
> (running) version doesn't understand
> * new selinux policy installed, pokes dbus to reread its config file
> * old dbus is still running, fails to parse new config file, exits
> * all of gnome dies with it
> * X server exits because all clients have exited
> * gdm restarts

That was an fc6 bug that we put a workaround in to fix. It never
effected fc7. This has got to be something different.

--Ray




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