On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 21:16 -0800, bruce wrote: > hi... > > i'm trying to run yum... > > i have rh fedora (trying to get to fc3) > > it looks like my system has parts of fc1/fc2... as if the yum that i tried > to do to go from rh8 to fc2 didn't quite work!! > > i have the release-fedora for fc3 and the yum for fc2. > > i do a 'yum upgrade yum python rpm' and yum dies on me... which takes my > system down, forcing me to have to reboot... > > searches of google indicate that others have seen something simialr, but i > don't find a solution/cause... > > any ideas/issues as to what's the cause of this??? > You're not giving nearly enough information to help you. What ver of yum? (rpm -q yum) What ver of rpm? (rpm -q rpm) What ver of your distro? (rpm -q redhat-release fedora-release) What happens when you say yum 'dies'? -sv