LiveUSB and PackageKit Updates
Chuck Anderson
cra at WPI.EDU
Tue Oct 14 13:15:59 UTC 2008
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:58:44PM -0400, Michael Solberg wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm sure someone's thought of this before, but I keep running into this
> issue on the LiveUSB on the XO.
>
> The issue is that /var/cache/yum is mounted as tmpfs on the Live image.
> When I log into a desktop session that already knows my wireless key,
> the updates applet attempts to download all the packages from Rawhide.
> This fills the 256MB of RAM pretty quickly and that hangs the machine.
> Does it make sense to turn that applet off in this case? Or maybe not
> mount /var/cache/yum as tmpfs when there's an overlay?
I can easily fill the overlay and crash the LiveOS with ext3 errors.
Has any thought been put into how to solve this problem?
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