[Yum] Segmentation Fault running yum update

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Dec 7 23:08:04 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:51 -0600, lon at athenet.net wrote:
> 
>   Today, after having completed a successful session of up2date,
> I ran yum update in Fedora Core 2.  I have also previously used yum
> update and am now, maybe, caught up for a while.
> 
> 
>   The routine baled out thusly:
> 
> 
> [root at athenet root]# yum update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Segmentation fault
> [root at athenet root]#
> 
> 
>     Does this mean everything is up 2 date?  Or why did the Segmentation
> fault issue?
> 

a segfault is not an expected thing, no.

run it again, see if it still happens

Have you been seeing any other random segfaults? If so then it's time to
check your memory and fans.
-sv





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