Joel Rees wrote: > I've been running yum logged in graphically and using copy/paste to save the > results. I know, the prefered way is to tee yum in a console window, but I'm > lazy. > > So I left it running just now, and when I came back and tried to bring > it back from the screen saver, the screen just remained blank. <snip> > Checked yum and xorg logs but don't see anything that looks like a > complaint in there. yum.log does show that the screen saver got > updated about 10 packages before the end and screensaver's extras got > updated about three from the end of the log. You know, this just might be related. Your computer started running one version of a screensaver, the stuff on disk got updated, the screensaver wanted something from disk, and found that it wasn't where it was expected. And the screensaver crashed. I had something similar last week when updating Firefox: I had a window open at the time, and tried logging into my ADSL router. It Just Wouldn't Work until I restarted Firefox. I'm not sure what can be done about this, especially for the screensaver. You can't have the RPM update killing the current screensaver, since that's a security problem (if there's a password on the screensaver)[1]. Out of interest, what results do you want to save? Does /var/log/yum.log not contain enough? Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | When did you last back up your system? aprilcottage.co.uk |
