seth vidal wrote: >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 ;) > > Okay, but yum's interaction installing the FVWM2 group caused the rpmdb hang ;-) I'll try to duplicate this soon and run the rpmdb_stat command. /Brian/