On Monday 31 July 2006 12:54, 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 > Do you not use yast? What version of SuSE 10? I have found some bad instabilities in 10.1 and 10.0 is a .0 release. Also you should check the log files for yum (if there are any) and others like /var/log/messages and what not. You could also dump all logging to a separate file for troubleshooting then try and reproduce the scenario.