FC7 still freezing during yum updates

Philip Walden pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net
Sun Sep 9 16:21:43 UTC 2007


This problem has plagued me since I installed FC7.

I have an older laptop (HP Omnibook 6000) that worked great under FC6. 
Never one problem.

I first tried an upgrade from FC6 to FC7, but this process repeatedly 
froze in mid process. The symptoms were, frozen pointer, no disk 
activity, no keyboard response, had to hard-power-reset to recover. I 
then went for the fresh new install. As I recall it also had freezing 
problems, but I was able to eventually complete the installation.

Ever since then, the system still freezes, but only during a yum update 
or soon after the yum update completes. If it freezes during a yum 
update, the machine frequently re-freezes during the hard-reset-re-boot. 
It may take several attempts to get the machine to fully re-boot.

The kicker is that if I do not use yum update during a session, I never 
have a problem. This problem is definitely triggered by the yum update 
process.

Reading other reports of freezes I have tried:

- logging in with ssh from another computer...no response, does not 
appear to be a X server problem
- checked for kernel messages ... none in any log, it just seems to stop.

Any ideas?





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