On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, James Antill wrote:
Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I've been noticing that when we do a 'yum update' and the package set
exceeds around 300 packages that we get a segmentation fault every now
and then. I've been restricting the updates to no more than 200 at a
time and we don't see the problem now.
This is with f9/f10 yum/rpm/etc. ?
My first guess would be that it's running out of memory, possibly
inside rpm itself (there was a bug with fingerprinting on kernel
updates that caused memory usage explosion).
But it's hard to say, can you get a backtrace from a core file?
Certainly nothing in yum can cause a SEGV without a bug somewhere
else.
It shouldn't be segfaulting - it could be oom-killing but not segfaulting.
Run 'dmesg' and see what the system is reporting for that time.
-sv
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