YUM problem on new FC4 installation

[fredex]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:57:28AM +0100, Alessandro Brezzi wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 2006/1/3, fredex <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>:
> >
> > Hi Gang!
> >
> > I've got a brand new FC4 installation. Trying to use yum (or up2date)
> > to import and install all the updates since the release.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Is this a known issue? if so can anyone suggest a fix/workaround for it?
> >
> > thanks!
> 
> 
> If you made a full install, expect about 1,6GB of update to be downloaded
> and installed. This can lead to a critical situation.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try doing it as you show below.

However, I installed using the "personal workstation" option then I 
weeded through the package list, reducing it still further, because
I had only a 4 gig partition, and needed only a few apps (mainly k3b
and gnucash). Still, yum spews a loooooong list of headers it wants
before it hangs.

While I haven't previously used FC to any large extent, I have installed
RHEL3, RHEL4, and TaoLinux several times and always just done a bulk
update of each system, to update the whole thing in one fell swoop,
and have never had this kind of problem before.

> When I've made a similar job I've used this approach:
> 1- yum update yum
>     this is the first thing to be sure yum is correct
> 2- yum update kernel*
>     just to download the latest kernel
> 3- yum update xorg*
>     the x11 part
> 4- yum update gnome* kde*
> 5- yum update gcc*
> 6- reboot
>     to use the new kernel/xorg etc
> 7- yum check-update | tee myup2date | wc
>     to have a list of package to be updated
> 8- vim myup2date
>     see how many packages you have to upgrade and try to update group of
> them (yum
>     update pref* as per yum update mysql* or yum update ooffice*)
> 
> Be carefull to update for limited batch of packages; if you are updating an
> x86_64 mach, many package come in the double arch i386 and x86_64. In some
> situation the rpm can be confused in updating this. Updating a small set of
> package can be usefull to fix this problems (for me: perl, cups and some
> other package)
> 
> HTH
> 
> --
> Alessandro Brezzi

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