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

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Jul 3 22:38:30 UTC 2008


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




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