Yum took looong time to install kernel

Reid Rivenburgh reidr at pobox.com
Sun Apr 20 01:28:26 UTC 2008


On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:36 AM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.25-0.218.rc8.git7.fc9.x86_64
kernel-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.x86_64
kernel-2.6.25-1.fc9.x86_64

So not an inordinate number....  I've never seen one take that long,
but if you think it's reasonable, then I'm happy with that.  Thanks.

reid




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