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date: 14 Apr 2016
section: 8
title: 'RPM-SYSTEMD-INHIBIT'
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NAME
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rpm-plugin-systemd-inhibit - Plugin for the RPM Package Manager

Description
===========

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.

Prerequisites
=============

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.

Configuration
=============

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

SEE ALSO
========

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