yum and "rpm -U" not working

[Stainforth, Matthew (SD/DS)]

I've seen df hang on a malfunctioning nfs mount.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Margaret Doll
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 02:30
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: yum and "rpm -U" not working
> 
> 
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:03 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us 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?
> > <snip>
> >> The kernel on which the system is running is xen, but the problem
> >> with
> >> rpm and yum still exists.
> >
> > Ok, so is there anything in the yum.log, from when it failed? Have
> you
> > tried rpm -Uvh xterm, to see if it said anything? Oh - and try rpm -
> > Uvvh -
> > I thought I remembered this, and yep, the man page sayeth "Print
> > lots of
> > ugly debugging information".
> >
> > Let us know what happens if you try that.
> >
> >         mark
> 
> Thanks, Mark and Gabi,
> 
> 	rpm -Uvvh xterm*rpm
> 
> ends with
> 
> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42
> D: mounted filesystems:
> D:     i        dev    bsize       bavail       iavail mount point
> 
> We are also having problems with df working completely.  df also hangs
> after reporting most of the volumes that are mounted.   We thought the
> problems were unrelated.  Perhaps a reboot will help.
> 
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