On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 09:29 +0000, Joseph Haig wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Daniel Senie <dts at senie.com> > To: centos at centos.org > Sent: Tuesday, 5 September, 2006 10:00:49 AM > Subject: [CentOS] yum consumes machine (load average soars to 47) > > I was using yum to update packages a few nights ago on one of my > servers. The update of rpm packages appeared to die. Since then, > <snip> In the thread that start here http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-August/069126.html There are not only a couple different ways to do the update safely, but instructions that help if certain rpm abberations have been caused by the abortive first attempt. HTH Bill