yum and "rpm -U" not working

[Gabi C]

did you try  running rpm more verbose? (-v or -vv)

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>wrote:

>
> 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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