On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 17:29 -0400, Brian Long wrote: > > What rpm version is this with? Does any of the rpms within > > Oracle-Client group do anything with rpm in it's scriptlets? > > > > Rather than killing yum can you chroot and report > > > > cd /var/lib/rpm > > /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_stat -CA > > I'll try to get the hang duplicated and run the above command. Yum > didn't even start downloading the headers inside the yumgroup; also, > there are no rpm commands in the scriptlets. This is > rpm-4.2.3-21_nonptl on RHEL 3 Update 5. which means the rpmdb was hung before yum touched it (I hope ;) -sv