Paul Howarth wrote: >> >> Henry Hartley wrote: >> > Now, a yum update goes through, finds 981 packages to update and >> > runs the transaction test. Unfortunately, it ends with an error: >> > >> > memory alloc (4 bytes) returned NULL >> > >> > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. >> >> Is your swap space turned on? As far as I know. How can I tell? df reports that I have (among other things) /dev/shm (128104 / 100% available). Is that swap? Is this just not enough memory and swap to upgrade that much? If so, I suppose I can take some of the larger groups of packages (openoffice, gnome, etc) and update just them first. -- Henry
