On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at 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. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > Sounds like something else interfered. I wouldn't blame this on updating. But yeah: screen. I used to write database update scripts that would refuse to run unless the user was running in a screen session.