YUM update from RHEL3 to CentOS3 stalls

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On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:43 -0800, iank@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just ran into a problem. I was following the nifty procedure to 
> upgrade a WhiteHat/RHEL3.x box to CentOS 3.6 and the update hung. It 
> was in the process of updating
> MySQL server, and a post install scriptlet apparently failed. So I 
> killed the process
> with a CTRL-C. However, upon trying to restart YUM, it says there is 
> nothing left to,
> saying:
> 
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: CentOS-3 - Addons
> Server: CentOS-3 - Base
> Server: CentOS-3 - Extras
> Server: CentOS-3 - Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> No Packages Available for Update
> No actions to take
> 
> However, the MySQL server package was 121/172, so there should be 51 
> packages
> left. Unless the output to the screen was killed off, but the process 
> continued?
> 
> I have yet to reboot for fear something is in a very unstable state.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ian

try:
yum clean

and then

yum upgrade
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