[CentOS] Yum Segfaulting
Ken Smith
kens at kensnet.org
Wed Dec 19 08:18:52 UTC 2012
James Pearson wrote:
> Ken Smith wrote:
>
>> On both the faulty system and a good one, yum appears to hunt for
>> various versions of python files.
>>
>> Anyone with more knowledge than I have of system calls, is there a clue
>> in here?
>>
> You could try flushing the file system cache:
>
> echo 3> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>
> (or reboot) and try again ?
>
> James Pearson
>
Hi James, brilliant "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" worked. So does
that mean that there wasn't enough free memory for yum to run?
Thanks
Ken
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