Scott Silva wrote:
And in one case, I got kicked off of my ssh connection in mid-update. I'm still not sure what happened there but I had to install yum-utils and run yum-recover-transaction to continue.
I always run my updates through screen. That way disconnects aren't a problem. During major updates I also usually run yum with the --downloadonly option so I can have most of the files local when I am ready.
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.