Yum "freezing" keyboard/mouse -
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Thu Jul 20 22:11:33 UTC 2006
alan wrote:
> 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?
>
I didn't find any clue in the log messages but I did shut the box down
and pulled out the three memory strips and reseated each in turn.
Switched power back on and it is presently updating 75 packages. Did I
fix anything? I don't know but it appears to be working normally again.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Bob Goodwin
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