On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 21:08 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, seth vidal 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. > > Fingerprinting happens when preparing for the transaction, not while > installing. A "hang" during installation is most likely a scriptlet (%post > or so) just taking forever to run. ah, sorry for the misapplying the problem. thanks for clearing it up. -sv -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
