Is it safe to run application updates on a live production system?

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Issue

  • Is it safe to run application updates on a live production system?
  • Some program crashed  when some packages were being updated, especially glibc.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • glibc

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