Yum crash

[Paul Howarth]

Qian Qiao wrote:
> I currently have a box running RH 8.0, and I am planning to upgrade it
> to FC3, because I need NPTL support.
> 
> I've installed fedora-releases package ok, but I found no luck
> installing the yum from FC3 directly onto the RH8 as it always fails
> the dependency check, and can't be installed even with --force.
> 
> I then turned to the yum package from RH9 and was hoping that I could
> use yum to upgrade itself.
> 
> The yum was installled successfully, however, if I do a yum upgrade
> yum, it simply crashes the machine.
> 
> Is there any way to get round that? Is there any hope that I could
> still upgrade the box to FC3?

Is there any particular reason why you want to do this using yum rather than 
an upgrade using anaconda?

Paul.