On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Qian Qiao wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:30:11 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay > <balay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What do you mean by 'dead'?. Don't you telnet/ssh into this machine? > > If so - you should have stuff on your sceen - which you can copy/paste > > into e-mail. > > The machine was rebooted, and I managed to crashed it again, just to > get the yum output: > > # yum update > Gathering package information from servers > Getting headers from: Fedora Core 2 base > Getting headers from: Fedora Core 2 updates > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > Resolving dependencies > . > > and that's it. It then crashed. > > By dead, I meant crash, the entire system (not just yum) just crashed > completely. Lost ssh connection, doesn't respond on ping or anything. ok. sounds like there is something seriously wrong with this machine. If it gets hoesed up with 'yum' - you can try 'apt' and see if it goes any further. And to minimise possible mishaps - I'll recommend trying to upgrade to RHL9. (repositories are at ayo.freshrpms.net) You could also try making sure you have the latest kernel/glibc/rpm/python updates for RHL8 before attempting any major upgrades. good luck. Satish
