[Yum] yum dying...

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 21:16 -0800, bruce wrote:
> hi...
> 
> i'm trying to run yum...
> 
> i have rh fedora (trying to get to fc3)
> 
> it looks like my system has parts of fc1/fc2... as if the yum that i tried
> to do to go from rh8 to fc2 didn't quite work!!
> 
> i have the release-fedora for fc3 and the yum for fc2.
> 
> i do a 'yum upgrade yum python rpm' and yum dies on me... which takes my
> system down, forcing me to have to reboot...
> 
> searches of google indicate that others have seen something simialr, but i
> don't find a solution/cause...
> 
> any ideas/issues as to what's the cause of this???
> 

You're not giving nearly enough information to help you.
 What ver of yum? (rpm -q yum)
 What ver of rpm? (rpm -q rpm)
 What ver of your distro? (rpm -q redhat-release fedora-release)
 What happens when you say yum 'dies'?

-sv