was doing an update - yum

[Dave Mitchell]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:28:22PM +1000, david wrote:
> hi all
> was doing an update in yum, all seemed happy and downloaded everything
> that was required and started to install, then the following error
> occurred;
> 
> Running test transaction:
> memory alloc (8 bytes) returned NULL.
> 
> then returned to root, end of progress, no more information given,

sounds like you rand out or memory. 'free' shows what you have left.
If yum is updating multiple packages, it can eat vast amounts of
memory.

Dave.

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