[K12OSN] Yum transaction hangs-Centos
Scott S.
ssh at tranquility.net
Sun Mar 28 23:17:12 UTC 2010
I have a Centos LTSP install that is my home/test bed. I have used LTSP
for a long time, I chose the Centos variant for my home use, because at
the time I only had dialup. Upgrades were a matter of hauling the server
to someplace with a fast connect.
I haven't done that for almost a year, and just got DSL at home. Gleeful
at the prospect of easily updating, I am running into failed yum
transactions. I noticed this a while back when I tried to update cups.
It suggested I run yum-complete-transacton, which also just hung. That
process borked cups, but I could put it back from a backup easily.
I ran 'yum clean all' with no change.
In googling the problem I could see that this can be caused by hung nfs
mounts. I have an nfs mount (that has been working fine), but i unmount
-f it just in case.
The kernel is 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5
The problem is happening either with the command line yum or Yumex.
Yumex's plugins are fastestmirror and priorities.
While I have used other 3rd party repos over the years (Adobe, rpmforge,
livna, etc), my current repos are:
CentOS-5- Updates
CentOS-5-Extras
CentOS-5 Addons
CentOS-5-Base
k12ltsp
Suggestions?
TIA-Scott S.
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