<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Arkadiy Butermanov wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:e10ef9c30807031439q285deb02le3082d77f545ced5@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> 2008/7/4 Daniel B. Thurman <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dant@cdkkt.com">dant@cdkkt.com</a>>: <div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">As the subject line says, Yum hangs as follows: # yum update Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit <hang> I cannot use yum again, even when I kill the yum process. What can I do to fix this, short of rebooting? </blockquote> </div> I think you can delete this trouble: 1. download yumex (yum install yumex) - this is graphic interface for yum 2. Go to File >> Parameters >> Installed plugins 3. Put off flag from checkbox)) </blockquote> Hmm... it looks like what is really hanging is rpm. It freezes up. So, I guess the next question is: how do I fix this? I cannot even rebuild the rpm database since rpm itself hangs? Thanks! Dan </body> </html>