I'd suggest running memtest86 and mprime on the system for a few dozen hours, maybe it's CPU/RAM issues?
Cheers, MaZe.
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Greg Knaddison wrote:
On 9/6/05, Dave Gutteridge dave@tokyocomedy.com wrote:
I'd like to comment on this list to say that despite earlier reports saying that I had fixed my YUM problems, it still freezes my computer every now and again. I've been told this might be because I have too little free space on my hard drive, so I cleared over 9 gigs, and it still freezes sometimes.
Dave,
Whomever told you that it might be an overfilled hard drive either has a bad mental map of how computers work or thought that your problem was caused by a unlikely corner case. Run from his advice.
I was told my RPM database was screwed, so I rebuilt the database and it still freezes.
Perhaps, but that typically gives more specific errors that you can search on and find that an rpm remove/rebuild/repeat will solve your problem and not just the evil no error that you seem to be experiencing.
I'm not sure what the problem is now, but I do know that on the one hand YUM seems like a great idea, and when it does work, I think it's really cool. But something is not right with it, and I don't even have error messages which let me know what went wrong, so I can't say that I would recommend YUM.
This is really a pretty harsh criticism without much indication of what your exact hardware/software specs are and what your problem is. Can you please post RAM/CPU, specific version of operating system, and the result of "yum list updates" if it does complete?
I feel certain that given those bits of information we will be far down the path of fixing whatever your problem is or at least being able to point at antiquated/failing hardware as the problem. And note my message that yum can work fine with a Pentium133/64MBRAM system, so "antiquated" really needs to be old for it to not work with yum.
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