Yum took looong time to install kernel

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 09:08 -0600, Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
> Hi.  Yesterday I did a "yum update" and got the new kernel,
> kernel.x86_64 0-2.6.25-1.fc9, among other packages.  The first time I
> ran it, it seemed to hang at the kernel "Installing" step.  I killed
> it after a few minutes and cleaned up the mess it caused (duplicate
> packages that would have been removed later in the process).  Later, I
> tried updating again with "-v -d 10", letting it go as long as needed.
>  It finally finished:
> 
> Running Transaction
>   Installing: kernel                       ######################### [1/3]
>   Cleanup   : kernel                       ######################### [2/3]
>   Erasing   : kmod-nvidia-2.6.25-0.204.rc8 ######################### [3/3]
> Running "posttrans" handler for "changelog" plugin
> Running "posttrans" handler for "refresh-packagekit" plugin
> Running "posttrans" handler for "merge-conf" plugin
> Transaction time: 3168.841
> 
> It froze at the 1/3 step again, but at least it eventually finished.
> As you can see, that took a really long time, much longer than I've
> ever seen yum take.  Does anyone know why?  Should I be concerned
> about my system?  Was it just waiting for some resource to become
> free?

how many kernels do you have installed?

rpm -q kernel

nevertheless it is most likely the file fingerprint routine in rpm.

-sv