CentOS 4.1 yum update just hangs NOT-[SOLVED]

[ahodgson at simkin.ca (Alan Hodgson)]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:31:08PM -0400, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
> I got further in the yum update but it quit with
> 
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
> Updating: zlib 100 % done 1/128
> /sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/liblapack.so.3.0.3.#prelink#.3qFZHx is 
> empty, not checked.
> 
> and on the console I see...
> 
> ata3: command 0xca timeout ....
> ata3: status 0xda { Busy }
> SCSI error <2 0 0 0 >
> Current sda: sense key aborted command
> Additional sense: scsi parity error
> end_request: I/O error /dev/sda
> EXT3fs error: ... journal has aborted
>

Well this is clearly some sort of serious hardware or disk driver issue.  I
can't imagine it being related to yum or rpm other than that what it's
currently interfering with.


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