YUM crashes during update

[Johnston, Michael W (N-Red Canyon Software)]

Thanks
I will try this tonight
Mike J

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Subject: RE: YUM crashes during update

Johnston,  Michael W (N-Red Canyon Software) wrote:

> I can update a single module with yum.
> The install went just fine as far as I know.
> I have performed "yum clean all".
> 
> Back in February there was a reported problem like this
> That was caused by a bad RPM.
> Does anyone know if that is a possibility?
> It seems to fail processing parts of open office.

You could add the line

exclude=openoffice*

to /etc/yum.conf .

If you are really short of memory
openoffice is going to be more or less unusable anyway ...


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