XO-1 hangs upon yum update in Gnome

[James Cameron]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:43:46PM +0800, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
> The machine will download the info + list of files to be update, asks
> if I want to continue, then when I say yes, at around the 3rd (out of
> 23 updates), the machine will go sluggish and more or less hang/be
> unusable and I have to do a hard power-off.
> 
> Any tips?

Expected, normal.

See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Yum#Memory_Limitations

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James Cameron
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