F11 yum: "Running Transaction test" for over an hour ??

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, sean darcy wrote:

> Running yum upgrade on F11, yum dl's a modest amount of stuff - mesa, 
> firefox,etc. But now it's been running transaction test for over an hour on 
> two different machines! Even for really big upgrades this never has taken 
> more than a few minutes.
>
> Any clues?

strace the process. Look for a FUTEX_WAIT.

-sv