Re: Yum Segfaulting

[Ken Smith <kens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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