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

[Seth Vidal]

On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, sean darcy wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>
> Didn't find a FUTEX_WAIT.
>
> Tried again after yum clean all, same result.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> sean
>
> strace yum -y  update yum-presto

fun - seems like sqlite has gotten itself wedged. Is your /var/cache/yum 
on an odd fs? If not - just run: yum clean all

and try again.

-sv