On Sunday 09 September 2007 18:21, Philip Walden wrote: > This problem has plagued me since I installed FC7. > > I have an older laptop (HP Omnibook 6000) that worked great under FC6. > Never one problem. > > I first tried an upgrade from FC6 to FC7, but this process repeatedly > froze in mid process. The symptoms were, frozen pointer, no disk > activity, no keyboard response, had to hard-power-reset to recover. I > then went for the fresh new install. As I recall it also had freezing > problems, but I was able to eventually complete the installation. > > Ever since then, the system still freezes, but only during a yum update > or soon after the yum update completes. If it freezes during a yum > update, the machine frequently re-freezes during the hard-reset-re-boot. > It may take several attempts to get the machine to fully re-boot. > > The kicker is that if I do not use yum update during a session, I never > have a problem. This problem is definitely triggered by the yum update > process. > > Reading other reports of freezes I have tried: > > - logging in with ssh from another computer...no response, does not > appear to be a X server problem > - checked for kernel messages ... none in any log, it just seems to stop. > > Any ideas? Install apt, and synaptic perhaps. Then try an apt-get update, followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade. I have no problems with apt, and it's worth a try. if it doesn't work, it may be a problem with rpm itself, and perhaps someone else may have a suggestion. Do you get the same freeze if you do a yum install <package name>? Nigel.
