HI all, I seem to be experiencing a similar problem as Doug. Yum just stalls during yum update and the entire laptop eventually hangs. I've rebuilt the RPM database as suggested but yum doesn't seem to be working anymore. It keeps stalling at the point where it is "Reading repository metadata in from local files". Any advice would be greatly appreciated. -jlim On 6/21/06, Brian Long <brilong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 16:15 -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I tried to install a RPM package the other day using yum install > > <package> and it seemed to lock up the window and never finish. I gave > > up at the time and had to kill the yum process the next day as it had > > still not finished. > > > > Now when I type "yum update" I get a lockup after the following messages: > > > > Setting up repositories > > updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B > > 00:00 > > extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB > > 00:00 > > base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB > > 00:00 > > Reading repository metadata in from local files > > primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 433 kB > > 00:04 > > primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 433 kB > > 00:04 > > updates-re: ################################################## 1184/1184 > > Added 1184 new packages, deleted 0 old in 10.00 seconds > > primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 886 kB > > 00:08 > > extras : ################################################## 3091/3091 > > Added 3091 new packages, deleted 0 old in 21.95 seconds > > primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 824 kB > > 00:08 > > base : ################################################## 2772/2772 > > Added 2772 new packages, deleted 0 old in 17.65 seconds > > > > I have looked in all of the log files I can think of and I do not see > > any messages. looking at the yum process, it appears to not be using any > > CPU and it has been running for over 3 hours. Typically, a yum update > > takes only a few minutes on this machine. I am running FC4 on this > > system. Any ideas on how to get yum working again? I didn't see any > > way to run the command and get a verbose output of its progress. > > > > Thank you for your time! > > It sounds like you need to rebuild your RPM database. When you killed > yum, I'm sure it had the RPM db open and now it's in an inconsistent > state. > > - Kill all yum and rpm processes. > - rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* > - rpm --rebuilddb (add -vv if you want to see what it's doing) > - Retry yum update. > > Should we add this to http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq? > > /Brian/ > > -- > Brian Long | | | > IT Data Center Systems | .|||. .|||. > Cisco Linux Developer | ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:.. > Phone: (919) 392-7363 | C i s c o S y s t e m s > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum >
