Paul Howarth wrote:
>
> Henry Hartley wrote:
> > Now, a yum update goes through, finds 981 packages to update and
> > runs the transaction test. Unfortunately, it ends with an error:
> >
> > memory alloc (4 bytes) returned NULL
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Is your swap space turned on?
As far as I know. How can I tell? df reports that I have (among other
things) /dev/shm (128104 / 100% available). Is that swap?
Is this just not enough memory and swap to upgrade that much? If so, I
suppose I can take some of the larger groups of packages (openoffice,
gnome, etc) and update just them first.
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Henry