Re: F12 installation stalled

2009-11-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:16:36 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: Trying to do a darned near Everything 32-bit installation on an old Thinkpad A22p with 1GHz P-III/M and 512MB. Several hours in things appeared to stall during the wesnoth-data RPM. I'm still seeing a

F12 installation stalled

2009-11-25 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Trying to do a darned near Everything 32-bit installation on an old Thinkpad A22p with 1GHz P-III/M and 512MB. Several hours in things appeared to stall during the wesnoth-data RPM. I'm still seeing a fairly steady disk activity light, but I suspect there may be a spanner in the spokes. Switching

Re: F12 installation stalled

2009-11-25 Thread stan
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:16:36 -0600 Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: Trying to do a darned near Everything 32-bit installation on an old Thinkpad A22p with 1GHz P-III/M and 512MB. Several hours in things appeared to stall during the wesnoth-data RPM. I'm still seeing a fairly

Re: F12 installation stalled

2009-11-25 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 11:33 -0700, stan wrote: It could be that what your seeing is 'thrashing' as the system reaches its limits for memory use (how much swap is used?). It might be that after a very long time everything will be resolved. However, you might want to consider just

Re: F12 installation stalled

2009-11-25 Thread stan
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:28:27 -0600 Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsav...@peaknet.net wrote: Stan, I don't think the problem is thrashing. top in the F2 console: top - 15:00:22 up 1 day, 17:39, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 77 total, 1 running, 74 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2