On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 15:45 -0500, Henry Hartley wrote: > Some further testing > indicates that the removal of old kernel-devel packages (15 of them) is > at least part of the problem. I tried running: > > $ package-cleanup --oldkernels > > from yum-utils. That resulted in the same error as did my big yum > update (which was "memory alloc (4 bytes) returned NULL"). So I tried: > > $ yum remove kernel-devel-2.6.12-*_FC4 > > Figuring that 15 was too many to remove at once so just remove these 5. > Same error. In fact, attempting to remove just one kernel-devel package > resulted in this error. Is there another way to remove them that may > work? Try: # for kd in $(rpm -q kernel-devel); do rpm -e $kd; done Also get rid of as many old kernels as you can. Paul.
