rpm-plugin-systemd-inhibit - Man Page

This plugin for RPM prevents the system to enter shutdown, sleep or idle mode while there is a rpm transaction running to prevent system corruption that can occur if the transaction is interrupted by a reboot.​

This is achieved by using the inhibit DBUS interface of systemd(1).​ The call is roughly equivalent to executing

systemd-inhibit --mode=block --what=idle:sleep:shutdown --who=RPM --why="Transaction running"

See systemd-inhibit(1) for the details of this mechanism.​

It is strongly advised to have the plugin installed on all systemd based systems.​

For the plugin to work systemd has to be used as init system and the DBUS system bus must be available.​ If the plugin cannot access the interface it gives a warning but does not stop the transaction.​

There are currently no options for this plugin in particular.​ See rpm-plugins(8) on how to control plugins in general.​

systemd-inhibit(1), rpm(8), rpm-plugins(8)

rpm-plugins(8).