update via pup caused my X session to close

[Jim Cornette]

Chuck Anderson wrote:
> I was updating a couple days ago using pup, and in the middle of the 
> package updates my X session closed, causing the update to terminate 
> without finishing.  I was left with duplicate packages installed and 
> not all of the updates were installed.  Has anyone else seen this 
> behavior and maybe know which package caused it?
> 

If you did not run yum afterwards (or pup) you should have the rpms 
still in yum cache directories. You can use rpm in a VT terminal logged 
in as root, change to the /var/cache/yum/<repo>/packages directory and 
run rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs *.<arch>.rpm to install again 
the rpms in text mode. The rpm multi-version problem is usually repaired 
or brought down to a more reasonable level.

I stupidly upgraded an installation in the GUI once and had the problem 
you mentioned before. I used the cached rpms to fix the problem and 
*never* do upgrades with yum via a GUI terminal anymore.

There probably should be flagged packages where they are never upgraded 
via the GUI included in pup or only upgraded when pup asks for a system 
reboot before applying these updates.

Jim
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