F9: Yum is hanging on "Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit"

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Craig White wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:31 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:05 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > > Arkadiy Butermanov wrote:
> > > > 2008/7/4 Daniel B. Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com>:
> > > >         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?
> > > > 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))
> > >
> > > 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?
> > ----
> > service yum-updatesd stop
> > ps aux|grep yum # kill off any running yum processes
> > ps aux|grep rpm # kill off any running rpm processes
> >
> > # if necessary, delete the region db's...
> >
> > rm /var/lib/rpm/__*db
> >
> > # then
> >
> > rpm --rebuilddb
> ----
> error...region files...
>
> rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
> rpm --rebuilddb
>
> Craig
>
yup!  That did the trick!

Thanks Craig!
Dan