Yum crash

[Qian Qiao]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:53:19 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay
<balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Qian Qiao wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:30:11 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay
> > <balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > > What do you mean by 'dead'?. Don't you telnet/ssh into this machine?
> > > If so - you should have stuff on your sceen - which you can copy/paste
> > > into e-mail.
> >
> > The machine was rebooted, and I managed to crashed it again, just to
> > get the yum output:
> >
> > # yum update
> > Gathering package information from servers
> > Getting headers from: Fedora Core 2 base
> > Getting headers from: Fedora Core 2 updates
> > Finding updated packages
> > Downloading needed headers
> > Resolving dependencies
> > .
> >
> > and that's it. It then crashed.
> >
> > By dead, I meant crash, the entire system (not just yum) just crashed
> > completely. Lost ssh connection, doesn't respond on ping or anything.
> 
> ok. sounds like there is something seriously wrong with this machine.
> 
> If it gets hoesed up with 'yum' - you can try 'apt' and see if it goes
> any further. And to minimise possible mishaps - I'll recommend trying
> to upgrade to RHL9. (repositories are at ayo.freshrpms.net)
> 
> You could also try making sure you have the latest
> kernel/glibc/rpm/python updates for RHL8 before attempting any major
> upgrades.
> 
> good luck.
> Satish

Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a try.

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