I am trying to install FC4 on an Athlon64 and am having a few issues. I can boot to DVD and install using custom packages. Everything works great and I go through the install process. Once the installation is complete, I attempt to do a "yum update" to get the latest kernel and updates. This is where I encounter problems:

1. The yum-update always locks up when updating the libc-client:

I attempted to CTRL+C the shell and it would not respond. I tried to CTRL+ALT+DEL the computer and it would not respond. I attempted to log in as root in another shell and it would not respond. I was forced to reboot the computer using the power switch on the front of the case.

2. I then did a yum clean all and a yum-update but now it was complaining that I was missing net-snmp. I tried to install it but it told me that I needed net-snmp-libs. I tried to install that, but it told me that i needed net-snmp. Seems like a weird circular depandancy. So I figured I would just do a yum remove net-snmp. That allowed me to then do a yum update which completed.

I am not sure if my system is corrupted or not, and would appreciate advice on what I should do. I am having some issues with qt-mysql not being recognized but it is installed.

Thanks,
Brian

Try updating libc-client by itself;

yum update libc-client

Show the output of;
rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}.rpm\n' 'qt-MySQL*

Well, I managed to run a yum remove "libc-client" before running a yum update and now it locks up o:

Updating : slib ##################### [218/582]


Thanks,
Brian

Instead of doing such a massive update, update in portions. Please visit for more information and help; http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/index.html

For example; su -c 'yum groupupdate "gcc"' ; provide root's password when asked.