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