yum and "rpm -U" not working

[Margaret Doll]

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
>>> 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?
>
> Is there any clue in /var/log/yum.log?
>>
>> 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
> <snip>
> That actually makes sense - you don't have the plain kernel on the  
> system.
> If you did rpm -qi kernel-xen, you'd get an answer.
>
>        mark

The kernel on which the system is running is xen, but the problem with  
rpm and yum still exists.

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