On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:05 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Arkadiy Butermanov wrote: > > 2008/7/4 Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx>: > > As the subject line says, Yum hangs as follows: > > > > # yum update > > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit > > <hang> > > > > I cannot use yum again, even when I kill the yum process. > > > > What can I do to fix this, short of rebooting? > > I think you can delete this trouble: > > 1. download yumex (yum install yumex) - this is graphic interface > > for yum > > 2. Go to File >> Parameters >> Installed plugins > > 3. Put off flag from checkbox)) > > Hmm... it looks like what is really hanging is rpm. It freezes up. > > So, I guess the next question is: how do I fix this? I cannot even > rebuild the rpm database since rpm itself hangs? ---- service yum-updatesd stop ps aux|grep yum # kill off any running yum processes ps aux|grep rpm # kill off any running rpm processes # if necessary, delete the region db's... rm /var/lib/rpm/__*db # then rpm --rebuilddb Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
