Yum hangs
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Jan 12 14:42:21 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 15:17 +0100, Frank Elsner wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> my "yum update" hangs :-(
>
> # yum update
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>
>
> In an other xterm:
>
> # ps -ef | grep yum
> root 12990 3614 0 15:06 pts/5 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum update
> root 13280 13248 0 15:13 pts/10 00:00:00 grep yum
> # strace -p 12990
> Process 12990 attached - interrupt to quit
> futex(0xb7bf17b0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL
>
>
> What's going on?
Bugs.
> How to solve the problem?
Dunno, but I can tell you what I do to recover from such breakdowns (at
average ca. 2-3 times per week with FC6)
1. reboot
2. rm -f /var/lib/__db*
3. rpm --rebuilddb
4. Check for duplicate entries inside of the rpmdb
and "yum remove" all older versions it might contain.
5. As prevention from silent unattended breakdowns: Disable yum-updatesd
Ralf
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