AMD64 Yum Problems

[Norman Gaywood]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:31:01PM -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> I installed the x86_64 version of FC4 Saturday and attempted to update
> using:
> 
> yum -y update
> 
> I get through the download of the headers and the RPMs, but during the
> actual update yum hangs, and cannot be aborted with control-C.  I've
> tried twice and yum seems to hang in different places or it gets to the
> transaction check (after the package download) then stops with no
> messages.
> 
> When the problem occurs, I cannot su, nor can I ssh in from another
> machine.  The computer is not hung, ssh and su prompt for a password,
> but a shell prompt never appears.

I had this problem on my x86_64 FC4 system as well.
> 
> I tried updating yum, selinux and pam separately, and turning off
> selinux to no avail.
> 
> I believe this to be the problem posted in:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-October/msg01035.html

Yes, same here. useradd hangs during the yum update. You can't login
from anywhere anymore. Current logins seem OK.

To solve this I installed my system then updated a few things at a time
and sprinkled in some reboots on the way. This is not scientific but I
now have a system that looks consistent.

Here is what I did from my .bash_history file:

yum check-update
yum update glibc glibc-devel
yum update pam
yum update selinux* kernel*
shutdown -r now
yum update zlib yum ypserv
yum update lib*
yum update xorg*
yum update udev
yum update audit* binutils coreutils dbus* devhelp
yum update glib2 pwlib rpm* shadow* slib* setup
shutdown -r now
yum update

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