Question about yum

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Oct 24 00:57:07 UTC 2006


On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:44:53PM -0400, Michel Di Croci wrote:
> Is it me or yum is unstable? I've been using it since a couple of days and
> I had more segfault in 2 days than any other linux distro in my life. Am I
> doing something wrong? It's very difficult to reproduce the error but when
> I do a search I can get a segfault...

Yum is in use on hundreds of systems where I work, and I don't think I've
ever seen it segfault.

It is, however, a big consumer of memory. It may be exposing a hardware
problem that your other programs just haven't hit. Or, there could be
corruption in your RPM database....


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