On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 08:48:22PM +0200, J?rgen M?llenhoff wrote: > Michael Stenner wrote: > > >I would suspect network rather than than rpmdb. I don't thing rpm > >uses any sub-processes that it could conceivably be connecting TO, > >though? Seth? Are you using ftp or http? > > > >If multiple people are having the same problem, I'd love to find out > >more. However, I'll need to be able to recreate it locally. > > I have this problem often and no I don't use slow repos and I don't use > ftp-repos (all http). Yum just sits there and the connection is dead > (you can even cut the network), Just to be clear, the fact that there is no traffic does not mean there's a networking problem. It may be hung elsewhere and not even trying to send/receive data. > the only solution is to kill the Yum-process and I agree is not > rpmdb related (the rpmdb is okay) it's a network problem. How do you know that? Please share the results of your investigation. Here's the thing. I need to be able to recreate these problems in order to diagnose them. I know it's frustrating to have something nont work correctly, but I've NEVER seen this behavior. So far, everybody seems to have a different problem (except maybe for you and Michael, but Michael's setup is so strange it's hard to say). -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
