yum and "rpm -U" not working

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Margaret wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Marti, Robert wrote:
>> ] On Behalf Of Margaret Doll
>> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:30 PM
>> On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:03 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> Margaret:
>>>> On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:01 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>>> Margaret wrote:
>>>>>>> From: Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>
>>>>>>> Date: January 21, 2010 10:25:47 AM EST
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are running 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5xen on our server.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Recently "yum update", "yum localinstall TIV*.rpm --nogpgcheck",
>>>>>>> and versions of "rpm -U xterm" hang.  yum hangs up on the
>>>>>>> transition
<snip>
> It is returning /var.  When I first tried to update, /var was 100%
> full.  I moved things around using soft links
> to free up space on /var.
>
Bang! Yum writes to /var/log/yum.log, and rpm, which it uses, writes to
the rpm d/b in /var. Bet that's why they hung.

        mark