Hi Kushan,

On 5 Aug 2010, at 17:51, kushan athukorala <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am using Fedora-13-Live-Soas.iso image on a Oracle Virtual Box for 
> automated test designs for OLPC activities. 
> 
> When I try to 'yum install gcc', the system hangs while updating glibc-common 
> library.

I've  not installed gcc, but for me usually that is a sign that yum has run out 
of memory. The various builds don't usually have any swap memory set as 
solid-state memory doesn't last as long when used for many/repeated write 
cycles. That's also one of the reasons yum is not usually used for regular 
users to upgrade and install activities in Sugar.

Make sure you have just Terminal open in Sugar to save memory, or even better, 
run you from the text console, ctrl+alt+F1 (ctrl+alt+F3 to get back to the 
Sugar GUI again). Heavy users of yum often add an extra sd card or USB, and set 
that as swap space, though your test environment will behave somewhat 
differently in high memory use situations.

--Gary

> Does anyone has faced this issue before and appreciate a solution if any?
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Kushan Athukorala
> 
> OLPC Automation Team
> Virtusa QA
> 
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