Brian Mathis wrote:
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
I had done the --downloadonly - and the disconnect wasn't network related as other connections to the same site stayed up. It seemed like something in the cleanup pass killed sshd - and the running yum, leaving a mess. The transaction recovery list was mostly erasing the old packages. But, this only happened on one machine out of many upgraded in exactly the same way so I don't really understand it.
Sounds like something else interfered. I wouldn't blame this on updating.
I don't like to jump to conclusions, but I stay connected over this link for months at a time - and the only unusual thing going on was the cleanup script exection for the updates. I do have an assortment of 3rd party packages installed so it might not have been a stock Centos rpm, though.
But yeah: screen. I used to write database update scripts that would refuse to run unless the user was running in a screen session.
I suspect that whatever it was, it killed the processes out from under the connection instead of the other way around - so screen probably wouldn't have helped.