Yum update...only one at a time?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 00:00 -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote:
> seth vidal <mailto:skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 23:45 -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote:
> >> I'm doing yum update, but its only doing one package at a time...any
> >> idea why? 
> >> 
> >> I've done a yum clean all and I'm using version 2.1.4
> > 
> > What do you mean one package at a time?
> > 
> > Can you describe the behavior more clearly?
> > 
> > -sv
> 
> I issue the command:  yum update
> 
> This should update all currently installed packages (download headers,
> download packages and install).  However, it will only download the header
> for one package and then yum exists.  If I run yum update again, it gets the
> next header and then exits.  

Does it exit at the prompt, suddenly or is it a normal exit?

The last time I saw this it had to do with memory problems on a system.
Could you run memtest on your system and see if there are any problems?

Thanks
-sv