From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041012 Description of problem: I'm running FC3 test2 on an old laptop with 128MB of RAM; the whole desktop is painfully slow. I'm trying to do a full yum update, which takes ages; it appears to be working, but bails out without an error message when it reached the transaction test. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.1.6-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: "yum update" on a 128MB machine with a large update (about 900 packages to be updated) Actual Results: (snipped, hundreds of updates await) [u] xorg-x11-xfs.i386 0:6.8.1-4 - user [u] yelp.i386 0:2.6.3-1 - user Is this ok [y/N]: y gnome-desktop-2.8.0-3.i38 100% |=========================| 699 kB 00:04 Running Transaction Test (it then bails out and returns me to the shell prompt) Expected Results: Ideally it should succeed (though I suspect I just don't have the memory on this machine); if it fails it should at least say that a failure has occurred, rather than silently dying. Additional info:
set keepalive=0 in your /etc/yum.conf file either under [main] or in each repository section. Then try again. I think this is the same as another bug.
Any more movement on this? The other possibility other than keepalive problems is the oom killer got it.
I updated to the latest yum, and then ran yum update... 1031 packages later, it finished successfully. I'm impressed. Excellent; resolving as fixed in RAWHIDE. (current yum on the machine is now yum-2.11-2)