On 7/31/06, Jack Ungerleider <jack at jacku.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 31 July 2006 12:54 pm, Sean Waite wrote:
> > Does this seem odd, or has this happened to anyone. I go to do a Yum
> update
> > (Suse 10) and the system reboots on an old AMD K2-450. Now at first I
> would
> > have assumed that the system was being overworkded (?), but yet I have
> > installed a few packages that required compiling which were much more
> CPU
> > intensive for a longer time than the Yum update is running.
> >
> > Maybe I am looking at this the wrong way, but I can not seem to figure
> out
> > why Yum would cause a reboot of all things.
> >
> >
> > Sean Waite
>
> Its possible your underlying version of RPM is faulty. If you're using
> 10.1
> then you'll want to make sure you've got the updates for Zenworks and
> YaST.
> (Of course if you are using the commercial version that may not be
> needed.)
> When I upgraded it took two tries because I needed to be wired into the
> network to be able to configure the online updater and grab the updates.
>
> Anyway you might try running the Online update from YaST and see if that
> corrects anything.
>
> --
> Jack Ungerleider
> jack at jacku.com
> http://www.jacku.com
>
> I doubt that it's something software related like RPM being hosed-

Can you do this without making the system reboot?
find / && find /

My bet is that all of the hard drive activity is pushing the power supply
past it's limit.
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