Problem with Add/Remove Applications -- will not complete

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 22:46 -0500, Michael Cagle wrote:
> I have an HP Pavillion a430n with an AMD AthlonXP 3200+ processor and 
> 1.25 gigabytes of memory. When I click on Start->System 
> Settings->Add/Remove Applications the "Checking System Status" dialog 
> box moves quickly to about 1/3 complete then stalls. When I use top from 
> the command line, I see that python continues to grow. It ran 4 hours 
> yesterday and python grew to 1.4 gigabytes before I stopped it. I have 
> an install of FC4T3 that has all packages installed. It has been updated 
> daily. "uname -a" returns the following:
> Linux CagleUX.MichaelCagle.com 2.6.11-1.1381_FC5 #1 Thu Jun 9 20:56:43 
> EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux.
> 
> Any ideas?

don't use it. use this:
yum shell
 > list available
 > install name-of-package-you-want
 > install name-of-other-package-you-want
 > run
 > quit

it's not graphically enabled, yet, but it works.

-sv