yum seems to have crashed my X11 session

[Joel Rees]

On 2006/09/18, at 21:14, James Wilkinson wrote:

> Joel Rees wrote:
>> I've been running yum logged in graphically and using copy/paste  
>> to save the
>> results. I know, the prefered way is to tee yum in a console  
>> window, but I'm
>> lazy.
>>
>> So I left it running just now, and when I came back and tried to  
>> bring
>> it back from the screen saver, the screen just remained blank.
>
> <snip>
>
>> Checked yum and xorg logs but don't see anything that looks like a
>> complaint in there. yum.log does show that the screen saver got
>> updated about 10 packages before the end and screensaver's extras got
>> updated about three from the end of the log.
>
> You know, this just might be related.

I kind of thought so, that's why I mentioned it.

> Your computer started running one
> version of a screensaver, the stuff on disk got updated, the  
> screensaver
> wanted something from disk, and found that it wasn't where it was
> expected. And the screensaver crashed.

Somehow I expected that replaced libraries would not be unlinked  
while the screen saver was active or sleeping (files remaining until  
last link released by close). I guess some of the libraries might get  
unloaded.

> I had something similar last week when updating Firefox: I had a  
> window
> open at the time, and tried logging into my ADSL router. It Just
> Wouldn't Work until I restarted Firefox.
>
> I'm not sure what can be done about this, especially for the
> screensaver. You can't have the RPM update killing the current
> screensaver, since that's a security problem (if there's a password on
> the screensaver)[1].

Is it worth filing a bug report on?

> Out of interest, what results do you want to save? Does /var/log/ 
> yum.log
> not contain enough?

Mostly just want a record of what was updated and how it went.