Re: Yum hangs at primary.xml.gz

[greg.knaddison at gmail.com (Greg Knaddison)]

On 8/4/05, Kevin Anderson <kevanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For some reason Yum now hangs at reading repository metadata in from local
> files.  It gets anywhere between 22-27% and then just hangs.
> It was working previously, and I can't think of anything new that was done
> to this machine.
> 

Hi.  

Centos 3 or 4?  Standard or newer yum?

Maybe a "yum clean all" would help?

Also, that can be a processor intensive action - what does top show? 
What happens if you just leave it running for an hour?

Another idea is that the yum folks are preparing to do a new release
which will have lots of speed improvements.  You could wait for that
if you don't mind running non-centos packages.

Greg