YUM problem on new FC4 installation

[Andy Green]

Donald Arseneau wrote:

>>Either program will run for a while then hang. for, like, 2 hours until
>>I kill it. When hung it consumes 80-90% of the CPU but does nothing
>>obviously productive.
> 
> That *is* unusual.  If I have a too-big update Yum thrashes,
> taking 80-90% of the memory but less than 5% of the cpu; and
> does nothing obviously productive.  Yum is a pig.


rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*

and try again.  Yum does have some porcine characteristics on a big
install but it's generally very good.  If the above solved the problem
then it was more an rpmn library problem than a yum problem FWIW.

-Andy

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