On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 14:06 -0800, Jonathan Day wrote: > >> I've been running into problems with Linux totally > >> locking up during extremely large updates. This > leaves > >> the state of the update indeterminate and the state > of > >> RPM's database a complete mess. > > > >Although it would be good to be able to recover from > >this situation we > >should also be figuring out what is causing the lock > >ups in the first > >place. <snip> this sounds waaaaaaay deeper than yum and I'm suggesting you look through fedora's bugzilla for things related to this AND you run a memory checker on your system as well as look at all the fans to make sure none has died. -sv
