On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 07:15 -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: > For some reason, when I try to run yum this morning it hangs: > > (ad nauseam, forever). It just sleeps. This is right after yum clean > all, and yumex hangs the same way. The only way out is kill -9, as it > is too hung for Ctrl-C to work. > > It worked fine last night up to maybe 10 pm, so I'm guessing that this > is something in last night's FC5 update OR something odd in my > particular installation. However, this is a recently re-installed > system and hasn't been gooped up much. In fact, I need yum to goop it. > > In a bit I'll try to run it with maximum debugging and report. I'll > also give it a half hour or so to complete. What ver of yum is this? chances are your rpmdb is frozen in a futex-wait. you can try: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb see if it fixes it. thanks, -sv
