On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 21:58 -0400, Michael Solberg wrote: > I'm sure someone's thought of this before, but I keep running into this > issue on the LiveUSB on the XO. > > The issue is that /var/cache/yum is mounted as tmpfs on the Live image. > When I log into a desktop session that already knows my wireless key, > the updates applet attempts to download all the packages from Rawhide. It's supposed to be getting turned off already. But there have been a few bugs. Things should be a lot better as of Snap1 or just after based on the traffic in the bug (can't find the # off-hand) although I still need to verify it > This fills the 256MB of RAM pretty quickly and that hangs the machine. > Does it make sense to turn that applet off in this case? Or maybe not > mount /var/cache/yum as tmpfs when there's an overlay? Actually, you even *more* want it as tmpfs when there's an overlay. Otherwise, you fill up your overlay and hit other bad error conditions :-/ Jeremy -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
