On 9/7/05, Dave Gutteridge <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Can you please post RAM/CPU, specific version of operating system, and
> >the result of "yum list updates" if it does complete?
> >
> >
> 512MB Ram, Pentium3, 500Mhz.
Ok, this should be fine.
>
> [root@localhost ~]# yum list updates
> Setting up Repos
> addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> kbs-CentOS-Extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> kbs-CentOS-Misc 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> kbs-CentOS: ################################################## 1572/1572
> kbs-CentOS: ################################################## 61/61
> primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 49 kB 00:00
> MD Read : ################################################## 124/124
> update : ################################################## 124/124
> dag : ################################################## 2458/2458
> base : ################################################## 1406/1406
> primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 98 kB 00:01
> MD Read : ################################################## 326/326
> freshrpms : ################################################## 326/326
> extras : ################################################## 32/32
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
>
So, looks like you have nothing to update, right? So yum must work
well enough that you can update your system :)
> >"antiquated" really needs to be old for it to not work with yum.
> >
> That's good to know. I don't think my computer is "antiquated", although
> it is getting long in the tooth.
> It would be nice to clear this detail up.
Your machine seems like it should be fine - I agree it's only a little
old, but should be fine in terms of speed if none of the hardware is
just flat failing.
> Two more details:
> Yum usually works fine for the first little while after I start the
> computer. When it freezes, it usually occurs after the computer has been
> on for a while, or if I've run YUM a couple of time, say, searching for
> a particular package.
> I also keep getting this annoying error message:
> /sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libk3bdevice.so.2.0.0.#prelink#.X8kEMh is
> empty, not checked.
> I tried turning "prelinking" off by editing a file... though I can't
> remember off hand which file that was right now. It was weeks ago, and
> it didn't help anyway. The error still happens now and again.
>
Generally speaking, running yum several times a day shouldn't just
cause problems on it's own. However, if you frequently are searching,
it can be handy to do a "yum list installed > YumInstalled.txt" and
"yum list available > YumAvailable.txt" and then do a grep on the
resulting text files rather than starting/re-running yum each time.
Also, if you feel like upgrading to yum2.4 then yum should be faster
and you can use the yum shell to do your searching in a more efficient
manner.
Maciej says to delete your prelink file - I don't know enough to know
if that will help, but as far as I can see you don't have a specific
problem per se, just that yum is slow which has been addressed in 2.4
and can also be worked around.
Greg
