Yum "freezing" keyboard/mouse -

[alan]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Bob Goodwin wrote:

> I have an FC-5 computer last updated about a week ago.
>
> Now yum update goes as far as starting to "Setting up repositories"
>
>
> and then at:
>
> atrpms     : ################################         515/654
>
> Everything stops and I lose control, can't do anything from the keyboard, 
> have to press the reset button to reboot.
>
> I don't know what to try next?  I have never had any problems with yum ... it 
> has always worked without problems.

Anything show up in /var/log/messages?

Have you run memtest86 lately?

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