Thanks I will try this tonight Mike J -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 11:18 AM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: YUM crashes during update Johnston, Michael W (N-Red Canyon Software) wrote: > I can update a single module with yum. > The install went just fine as far as I know. > I have performed "yum clean all". > > Back in February there was a reported problem like this > That was caused by a bad RPM. > Does anyone know if that is a possibility? > It seems to fail processing parts of open office. You could add the line exclude=openoffice* to /etc/yum.conf . If you are really short of memory openoffice is going to be more or less unusable anyway ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland