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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