Re: yum: segmentation fault when number of packages over about 300

Gerry Reno <[email protected]> writes:

> I've been noticing that when we do a 'yum update' and the package set
> exceeds around 300 packages that we get a segmentation fault every now
> and then.  I've been restricting the updates to no more than 200 at a
> time and we don't see the problem now.

 This is with f9/f10 yum/rpm/etc. ?

 My first guess would be that it's running out of memory, possibly
inside rpm itself (there was a bug with fingerprinting on kernel
updates that caused memory usage explosion).
 But it's hard to say, can you get a backtrace from a core file?
Certainly nothing in yum can cause a SEGV without a bug somewhere
else.

-- 
James Antill -- [email protected]