On 07/01/2013 02:46 PM Eero Volotinen wrote: > try using strace -p PID-OF-YUM and output to mailinglist Here's the last few lines of strace: ... open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.002", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 1318912, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0xb79db000 close(4) = 0 stat64("/var/lib/rpm/__db.003", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=450560, ...}) = 0 open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.003", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 450560, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0xb796d000 close(4) = 0 stat64("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=110592000, ...}) = 0 open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 read(4, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0a\25\6\0\10\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\10\0\0YV\0\0"..., 512) = 512 close(4) = 0 open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=110592000, ...}) = 0 futex(0xb79b56ac, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NULL It hangs there. Significantly, this 'rpm' command hangs also: # rpm -vv -V rpm D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 So the problem may well be with 'rpm'. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos