Cleanup : cpp-4.8.0-0.7.fc19.x86_64 215/262 Cleanup : gdb-7.5.50.20130118-2.fc19.x86_64 216/262 Cleanup : 1:findutils-4.5.10-7.fc19.x86_64 217/262 Cleanup : spice-server-0.12.2-2.fc19.x86_64 218/262 Cleanup : cracklib-2.8.22-2.fc19.x86_64 219/262 Cleanup : libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-1.0.1-6.fc19.x86_64 220/262 Cleanup : libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-1.0.1-6.fc19.x86_64 221/262 Cleanup : libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-1.0.1-6.fc19.x86_64 222/262 Cleanup : libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-1.0.1-6.fc19.x86_64 223/262 Cleanup : libvirt-daemon-1.0.1-6.fc19.x86_64 224/262 Cleanup : libvirt-client-1.0.1-6.fc19.x86_64 225/262 Cleanup : cyrus-sasl-2.1.25-2.fc19.x86_64 226/262 Cleanup : openldap-2.4.33-3.fc19.x86_64 227/262 Cleanup : nss-tools-3.14.1-3.fc19.x86_64 228/262 Cleanup : nss-sysinit-3.14.1-3.fc19.x86_64 229/262 Cleanup : nss-3.14.1-3.fc19.x86_64 230/262 (and here it hangs, for at least 20 minutes) There's nothing obviously going on inside the virtual machine. Load average is 0.00. The VM is still perfectly responsive, plenty of free memory and so on. It appears as if it's yum itself which is stuck: 4223 ? Ss 0:00 \_ sshd: rjones [priv] 4226 ? S 0:09 \_ sshd: rjones@pts/1 4227 pts/1 Ss 0:00 \_ -bash 13396 pts/1 S+ 0:00 \_ sudo yum update 13397 pts/1 Sl+ 1:01 \_ /usr/bin/python /bin/yum update Yum is blocked on a futex: $ sudo strace -p 13397 Process 13397 attached futex(0x7f908292fc0c, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NULL Is there a way I can see what (if anything) is holding on to this mutex? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel