On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 11:45 +0200, Jochen Schlick wrote: > Hi, I have a laptop where rawhide is installed since the days > of Fedora Core 1. It has only 256MB ram so updating using yum > was always like a lame duck but nowadays it's really a crap. > > Last friday the yum update process crashed when yum wants > to update the rpm library package. At least the line with the rpm > package was the last one displayed before the laptop was dead. > After reboot I had to overwrite some corrupted rpmlibs from an > other rawhide system - ok shit happens sometimes - to get rpm > work again - I verified this by installing some glibc/kde-rpms > via rpm directly yesterday. > After a clean reboot and stopping all services (to save ram) I > tried a new update via yum yesterday evening ..... > > -- dependency resolving was successful - after 30 minutes > -- then yum displays that it wants to pull 300 Meg (~70 packages) > -- after pressing "y" nothing more or less visible happens > for at least two hours. > -- and now, this morning after eight hours: 2 packages updated > (and a glibc error message about a double free...) > -- with this update "speed" I will have an "up to date" system > in 12 days... :-( You're almost definitely swapping. Take a look at your memory use and see if that is the case. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
