Why does yum quit randomly?

[Andrew Clunis]

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Andrew Clunis wrote:
> No OOMs or anything like that, but yum will randomly drop you back to
> the prompt during the install process with no errors or warnings.  This
> necessitates re-running yum (a very slow process) multiple times, with
> no guarantees.  This usually seems to happen after it installs one or
> two dependency packages in the "Running Transaction" phase.
> 
> This happens on both my XO and qemu, with varying builds.

Ah, there's already a bug on Trac:

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/931

Still, I'm glad I spammed the list about it because it looks like this
isn't getting fixed very quickly. ;)

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Regards,
Andrew Clunis

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