On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 18:42:57 +0200, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yum cannot do that. Yum's Python code does not have the privileges to > lock up the machine like that. The worst that can happen is that Yum > stops working, waiting for RPM database locks to be unlocked. But that > doesn't crash the rest of the system. There do appear to be some kernel problems relating to I/O deadlocks that can be triggered by yum. However in my case, reboots have always temporarily fixed the problem.
