On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:36 AM, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 09:08 -0600, Reid Rivenburgh wrote: > > Hi. Yesterday I did a "yum update" and got the new kernel, > > kernel.x86_64 0-2.6.25-1.fc9, among other packages. The first time I > > ran it, it seemed to hang at the kernel "Installing" step. I killed > > it after a few minutes and cleaned up the mess it caused (duplicate > > packages that would have been removed later in the process). Later, I > > tried updating again with "-v -d 10", letting it go as long as needed. > > It finally finished: > > > > Running Transaction > > Installing: kernel ######################### [1/3] > > Cleanup : kernel ######################### [2/3] > > Erasing : kmod-nvidia-2.6.25-0.204.rc8 ######################### [3/3] > > Running "posttrans" handler for "changelog" plugin > > Running "posttrans" handler for "refresh-packagekit" plugin > > Running "posttrans" handler for "merge-conf" plugin > > Transaction time: 3168.841 > > > > It froze at the 1/3 step again, but at least it eventually finished. > > As you can see, that took a really long time, much longer than I've > > ever seen yum take. Does anyone know why? Should I be concerned > > about my system? Was it just waiting for some resource to become > > free? > > how many kernels do you have installed? > > rpm -q kernel > > nevertheless it is most likely the file fingerprint routine in rpm. # rpm -q kernel kernel-2.6.25-0.218.rc8.git7.fc9.x86_64 kernel-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.x86_64 kernel-2.6.25-1.fc9.x86_64 So not an inordinate number.... I've never seen one take that long, but if you think it's reasonable, then I'm happy with that. Thanks. reid -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
