try using strace -p PID-OF-YUM and output to mailinglist
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2013/7/1 ken <gebser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On 07/01/2013 02:04 PM Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On 07/01/2013 12:25 PM, ken wrote:
> >> On 07/01/2013 01:21 PM Reindl Harald wrote:
> >>> Am 01.07.2013 19:16, schrieb ken:
> >>>> About thirty minutes ago I started an update. Everything downloaded
> >>>> fine. But when it came to "Running Transaction", it hung:
> >>>>
> >>>> Running rpm_check_debug
> >>>> Running Transaction Test
> >>>> Finished Transaction Test
> >>>> Transaction Test Succeeded
> >>>> Running Transaction
> >>>> Updating : xulrunner
> >>>> 1/18
> >>>>
> >>>> And there it sits still.
> >>>>
> >>>> There's plenty of disk space. The load on the CPU is under 1.0.
> There
> >>>> is some disk activity, but no way so much as to cause anything to hang
> >>>> and no major writing related to yum. Disk reads are just about null,
> >>>> except just now when I grep'ed for something to make sure that the
> disk
> >>>> could be read. I'm not using even half of the available RAM
> >>> what about look in dmesg and/or /var/log/messages?
> >>>
> >> No. Nothing relevant there.
> >
> > Normally, there are a couple of big things to check:
> >
> > 1. DNS is properly resolving the mirror and your the computer doing the
> > update names.
> > 2. You do not have a full /var/ or /tmp/ partition
> > 3. You do not have a read only filesystem (usually due to a driver
> > error ... full partitions will act the same way). Make sure you can
> > write to /var/ and /tmp/
> > 4. Look at bandwidth to ensure it is not slow, look for a transparent
> > webproxy in the path, etc.
>
> yum already got past the downloading phase of the update process (see
> above), and as said above also, the filesystem is fine. So none of
> those things come into play here.
>
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