Fwd: yum and "rpm -U" not working

[Margaret Doll]

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> From: Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>
> Date: January 21, 2010 10:25:47 AM EST
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: yum  and "rpm -U" not working
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> 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  
> check after all the packages have been downloaded.  "rpm -U" tells  
> me which dependencies that I need, but hangs if I include the  
> dependencies in the list of programs to upgrade.
>
> "rpm --rebuildbd" seems to work.
>
> How do I start debugging this problem?

I discovered that the rpm database may not be working correctly.

"rpm -qa kernel" brings back nothing

rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5
kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.4.1.el5
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5
kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5
kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-128.4.1.el5
kernel-headers-2.6.18-128.4.1.el5

the /usr/src and /lib/modules for the kernel are on the system.

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