yum is stuck

[Georgios Magklaras]

If there is nothing on:

i) /var/log/yum.log and/or /var/log/messages
ii)You launch top and you see a restorecon process which can take a long 
time (frequently occurs when selinux policies are updates)

probably the yum process itself has been halted. Then:

1)Check that your /etc/grub.conf file is normal (especially if a kernel 
update was due)
2)Reboot the workstation in the new kernel
3)Do a yum clean all, followed by a yum -y update.

If there are any problems, yum should complain about unfinished 
transactions on step 3. In that case, you could also issue a 
yum-complete-transaction between steps 2 and 3. The 'yum clean all' step 
just cleans the repo metadata cache, it will not delete your 
repositories or packages.

GM

Best regards,

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George Magklaras PhD
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Biotechnology Center of Oslo and
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On 02/01/13 17:49, Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
> I ran "yum update" on my RedHat systems this morning.  All the upgrades
> completed successfully except on one system running Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux Workstation release 6.3 (Santiago).
>
> The update is stuck at
>
> Cleanup    :
> pango-1.28.1-3.el6_0.5.x86_64
> 56/58
>    Cleanup    :
> kexec-tools-2.0.0-245.el6.x86_64
> 57/58
>
> There were no problems listed in the update procedure.
>
> What should I do now?
>
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                       924426020   9207744 868260096   2% /
> tmpfs                 12266608       288  12266320   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda3               198337     92269     95828  50% /boot
> /dev/sda5              4128448   3790028    128708  97% /home
>
> Top shows:
> Mem:  24533220k total, 24186912k used,   346308k free, 13771324k buffers
> Swap: 26836984k total,        0k used, 26836984k free,  8948096k cached