On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:43 PM, William L. Maltby wrote:
Processing a huge number of dependancies (very likely going from 4.3->4.6) will use huge amounts. I would first upgrade yum itself (IIRC, the sqlite changed).
Tried that with a "yum -y update yum" but we're still getting clobbered.
Then, pay attention to the dependancy processing output and pick a few packages at a time to upgrade. After a few passes like this, you should be able to revert to the normal update processing.
Good suggestion--I'll remember that if I ever get to the point where it's starting to work :-)
Another strategy that might or might not work is to go to runlevel 3 (telinit 3) that eliminates all the graphical stuff and run from a normal VT. If you don't have swap enabled, make a swap partition or file of decent size and try that.
We're already there--no X is installed or running. Swap partition is set to 2GB--I suppose that I could add another swap file and see if that gets me over the hump.
Yum is choking at the point where it print the first "processing primary.xml.gz"
--Chris