just went to see what updates would go with my fedora fc5t2 box and yum now seems to run out memory. # yum --version Loading "installonlyn" plugin Running "config" handler for "installonlyn" plugin 2.5.1 #python -V Python 2.4.2 #uname -a Linux ossinfo.city 2.6.15-1.1884_FC5smp #1 SMP Mon Jan 30 18:18:13 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux #cat fedora-release Fedora Core release 4.91 (Pre-FC5) (Fedora fc5t2 updated to about Jan 30) if one deletes contents of /var/cache/yum [root@ossinfo cache]# yum -y --exclude=* update Loading "installonlyn" plugin Running "config" handler for "installonlyn" plugin Yum Version: 2.5.1 COMMAND: yum Installroot: / Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories developmen: ######################### 1/2Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fed... development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 extras-dev: ################################################## 2/2 Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://download.fed.... extras-development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Setting up Package Sacks primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.2 MB 00:11 at this point yum will start to use up all the RAM in the box (2GB) then a good chunck of Swap then about 5 mins later .. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 97, in main result, resultmsgs = do() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 471, in doCommands return self.updatePkgs() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 947, in updatePkgs self.doRepoSetup() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 74, in doRepoSetup self.doSackSetup(thisrepo=thisrepo) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 285, in doSackSetup self.repos.populateSack(which=repos) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 288, in populateSack dobj = repo.cacheHandler.getPrimary(xml, csum) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitecache.py", line 96, in getPrimary return self._getbase(location, checksum, 'primary') File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitecache.py", line 83, in _getbase (db, dbchecksum) = self.getDatabase(location, metadatatype) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitecache.py", line 79, in getDatabase db = self.makeSqliteCacheFile(filename,cachetype) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitecache.py", line 239, in makeSqliteCacheFile self.createTablesPrimary(db) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitecache.py", line 150, in createTablesPrimary self.createDbInfo(cur) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitecache.py", line 188, in createDbInfo cur.execute("""CREATE TABLE db_info ( File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlite/main.py", line 237, in execute self.con._begin() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlite/main.py", line 515, in _begin self.db.execute("BEGIN") MemoryError no mem for new parser Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 157, in run MemoryError Error in sys.exitfunc: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs func(*targs, **kargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 157, in run conduitcls = eval(conduitcls) # Convert name to class object MemoryError yum.conf and repo's are stock Fedora from the initial install -pete
