Dependency Checking Not Finishing

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:

> FYI Some time ago yum update on fc11 was wedged in dependency checking.
> I rebooted and then yum update worked properly.
>
> Normally I don't reboot Linux unless something like the kernel or dovecot
> is modified.  Perhaps multiple yum updates without a reboot doesn't
> clean things up as well as a reboot.

I bet if you looked it was stuck in a futex wait. Which means something 
froze up your rpmdb.

-sv