Re: system reboot running alien

[Hans-Georg Bork <hgb@hgbhome.net>]

Hi Philip,

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:01:09PM -0500, Philip Pinkerton wrote:
> Seem my system want to reboot when ever I run alien against this rpm:
> [...]
> cause when running:
> 
> alien -d -v  sapj2ee-srv-sapdb-6.40-2.i386.rpm
> 
> this runs for several minutes creating the necessary directories. lots 
> of output (no-errors)...
> 

since it produces a lot of output (see OP) I assume, it uses a lot of memory.
It might be possible, that there is a memory problem causing the reboot. Run
memtest (or any other testing tool) to check for that.

HTH

Regards
	-- hgb