YUM seg fault on F12 on x86_64 with >4096M of memory

[Kwan Lowe]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mleech at ripnet.com> wrote:
> I'm having a really weird issue, and I'm sure that someone must have
> heard of something like this.
>
> Yum seg faults when I ask it to do "things" when I have >4096M of
> physical memory installed.
>
> I'm running on a system with a Core 2 Quad, QX9770, with a x86_64
> install of Fedora 12 from
>  LIVE CD.
>
> If I drop physical memory down to <= 4096M, everything is happy.  But
> for >= 4096M, not so happy.
>
> Other parts of the system seem to be working OK. I can bring up Firefox,
> muck about in it, etc.
>
> My windows come up without issue.
>
> But YUM can't seem to handle having too much physical memory (which just
> strikes me as profoundly weird).
>
> Any clues?

:)  Sounds like a bug..  Is it reproducible? If so, maybe grabbing an
strace of the session could shed some light on it.  I have a virtual
system that i can allocate 5G or so. If you post what you were trying
to do, perhaps I can replicate.