yum is stuck

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Georgios Magklaras wrote:
> 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)
<snip>
Margaret, this last is what I was going to suggest looking for. Usually,
yum stops right after the selinux-policy's installed, but I don't know how
you ran yum. I've seen that damn policy trigger a *complete* relabelling
of the entire server - hours long.

       mark