Yum took looong time to install kernel

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 21:08 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, seth vidal 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.
> 
> Fingerprinting happens when preparing for the transaction, not while 
> installing. A "hang" during installation is most likely a scriptlet (%post 
> or so) just taking forever to run.

ah, sorry for the misapplying the problem.

thanks for clearing it up.

-sv