Bug 203823 - YUM does not stop at ^C
Summary: YUM does not stop at ^C
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-08-23 21:08 UTC by Han-Wen Nienhuys
Modified: 2014-01-21 22:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-08-26 11:38:42 UTC
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Description Han-Wen Nienhuys 2006-08-23 21:08:01 UTC 
If yum is busy downloading packages, ^C does not stop it, rather yum assumes
that there was a network error, and starts trying another mirror. Thus, it
almost impossible to stop yum in a normal way. "killall -9 yum" does work, but
brings the risk of database corruption.

Please make yum treat ^C specially.
Comment 1 Damien Durand 2006-08-26 11:38:42 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Well, for me this report is not
really a bug, yum can be stoped yum with ^Z.
Comment 2 Han-Wen Nienhuys 2006-08-26 13:37:40 UTC 
yes, and it also stops when I send the SIGABRT signal, or when I bang the
computer with a baseball bat. That is not the point.  The principle of least
astonishment says: unix programs stop gracefully if interrupted by ^C. YUM
violates this principle. 

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