Talking to others, it's clear that there's some problem with the recent "less" rpm. Here's an example:
Here's another example, where the strace'd yum process hung on a futex(). Note that this is happening mid-way through the rpm installation. Hopefully it's not screwing over my system too badly....
[snip beginning of yum -d 10 -y update]
select(14, NULL, [13], NULL, {2, 0}) = 1 (out [13], left {2, 0})
gettimeofday({1110439589, 627628}, NULL) = 0
write(13, "g\304j-*\366\330D\347M\305\250\233`\264\10g\264\210k$\236"..., 3236) = 3236
gettimeofday({1110439589, 627821}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 627897}, NULL) = 0
close(13) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 628007}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 628072}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 628127}, NULL) = 0
munmap(0x404c5000, 8192) = 0
rename("/usr/share/man/man1/less.1.gz;422ff6a5", "/usr/share/man/man1/less.1.gz") = 0
getuid32() = 0
chown32(0x8517950, 0, 0) = 0
chmod("/usr/share/man/man1/less.1.gz", 0644) = 0
utime("/usr/share/man/man1/less.1.gz", [2005/03/06-19:21:01, 2005/03/06-19:21:01]) = 0
open("/usr/share/man/man1/lesskey.1.gz;422ff6a5", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 13
fcntl64(13, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 629315}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 629392}, NULL) = 0
read(12, "", 16384) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 629530}, NULL) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x404c5000
select(14, NULL, [13], NULL, {2, 0}) = 1 (out [13], left {2, 0})
gettimeofday({1110439589, 629972}, NULL) = 0
write(13, "\37\213\10\10}\254+B\2\3lesskey.1\0\255\32\333v\333\270"..., 3825) = 3825
gettimeofday({1110439589, 630191}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 630259}, NULL) = 0
close(13) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 630366}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 630425}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 630479}, NULL) = 0
munmap(0x404c5000, 8192) = 0
rename("/usr/share/man/man1/lesskey.1.gz;422ff6a5", "/usr/share/man/man1/lesskey.1.gz") = 0
getuid32() = 0
chown32(0x8517950, 0, 0) = 0
chmod("/usr/share/man/man1/lesskey.1.gz", 0644) = 0
utime("/usr/share/man/man1/lesskey.1.gz", [2005/03/06-19:21:01, 2005/03/06-19:21:01]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8565000
brk(0) = 0x8565000
brk(0x8545000) = 0x8545000
brk(0) = 0x8545000
gettimeofday({1110439589, 631594}, NULL) = 0
close(12) = 0
munmap(0x4008c000, 4096) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 631766}, NULL) = 0
munmap(0x404c3000, 8192) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 631879}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1110439589, 631933}, NULL) = 0
less 100 % done 1/2 done 1/2\rless 0 % done"..., 210
) = 210
time(NULL) = 1110439589
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[], [33], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[HUP INT QUIT PIPE TERM], NULL, 8) = 0
futex(0x40ec1280, FUTEX_WAIT, 0, NULL
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