On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 10:49 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > >>Well here's what happened Craig,after changing to gpgcheck=0, > >> > >>Install 12 Package(s) > >>Update 295 Package(s) > >>Remove 0 Package(s) > >>Total download size: 622 M > >>Downloading Packages: > >>Running Transaction Test > >>[david@reddwarf ~]$ > >> > >>As you see it either crashed or decided nothing is to be done,I favour a > >>crash. No packages where downloaded. > > > > ---- > > am I to assume that you are executing this with a sudo command? > > > > Try doing an 'su -' and then running the command rather than sudo as > > there may be more information that is output in the shell that is > > supressed in a sudo command. You also might want to add '-e 1' to your > > yum command to get a report of any/all errors > > > > Craig > > > > Craig > > > Craig, I did as suggested - su - yum -y -e 1 update :- The result is :- > > Install 12 Package(s) > Update 295 Package(s) > Remove 0 Package(s) > Total download size: 622 M > Downloading Packages: > Running Transaction Test > Segmentation fault ---- well - at least we know you segfaulted - we don't know why. try doing... $ su - (which will give you a root shell with root's environment) # yum clean all # yum update and see what happens... Craig
