On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:53:19 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay <balay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a try. -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun...
