Re: PSA: Do not run 'dnf update' inside GNOME, KDE or any other graphical desktop on Fedora 24 - users - Fedora Mailing-Lists

Tuesday, 4 October 2016

On Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:51:07 -0700
Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:

...
 I'm working with the reporter right now to investigate and
hopefully
 get this fixed, but in the meantime - and this is in fact our standard
 advice anyway, but it bears repeating - DON'T RUN 'dnf update' INSIDE
 A DESKTOP. 
I think I can confirm this advice.  I always run dnf manually from the
command line, in a VT logged in as root.  And I can run X while doing
this and I've never had a dnf update issue.  I don't use the
graphical update tools, and always have PackageKit disabled to prevent
duplicate downloads of updates.