James Pearson wrote:
Ken Smith wrote:
On both the faulty system and a good one, yum appears to hunt for
various versions of python files.
Anyone with more knowledge than I have of system calls, is there a clue
in here?
You could try flushing the file system cache:
echo 3
Ken Smith wrote:
Hi James, brilliant echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches worked. So does
that mean that there wasn't enough free memory for yum to run?
No, it might mean that there was a 'corruption' of the in-memory copy of
'something' used by yum/python
The above command flushes the file
James Pearson wrote:
Ken Smith wrote:
Hi James, brilliant echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches worked. So
does that mean that there wasn't enough free memory for yum to run?
No, it might mean that there was a 'corruption' of the in-memory copy
of 'something' used by yum/python
I had
Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 18.12.2012 19:41, schrieb Ken Smith:
Hi All, I have a Centos 5.8 system with relatively little memory, that
runs in rl3, where yum has decided not to work any more.
{snip}
Any ideas where to look - I'm a bit stumped
at least with dmesg and in /var/log/messages
Ken Smith wrote:
On both the faulty system and a good one, yum appears to hunt for
various versions of python files.
Anyone with more knowledge that I have of system calls, is there a clue
in here?
You could try flushing the file system cache:
echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
(or
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