[CentOS] CentOS 4.1 yum update just hangs [SOLVED]

[Robin Mordasiewicz]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Remco Barendse wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
>> 
>>>> I've had this exact same problem, and I uninstalled yum reinstalled it
>>>> and it work for a day and then back to the same.  I've also had it
>>>> working temporarily by doing a yum clean-all then yum makecache.  But
>>>> next day it went back to doing the same old hang up.  I'm not sure if
>>>> this is a yum problem or a centos problem.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I was having this exact issue recently. Or at least, Yum was hanging at 
>>> the same stage as what you describe.
>>> 
>>> It was recommended to me on this list to do the following:
>>> 
>>> cd /var/lib/rpm
>>> rm __db.00*
>>> rpm --rebuilddb
>>> 
>>> This seems to have cleared up the problem for me. It might work for you.
>> 
>> Are you running x86_64 ?
>> Or is anyone here running x86_64 CentOS 4 and having success with yum 
>> update
>
> I am running x86_6 and had strange problems twice after running yum update. 
> You didn't state you are using x86 or x86_64 CentOS DVD but I am assuming it 
> is the x86_64 DVD?? I used x86_64
>
> The first time after a system crash (which I caused) the box was unable to 
> compile anything. The second time I had hang problems too. I just nuked the 
> box and am running a non updated CentOS 4.1 x86_64. For me it's no problem. 
> no access to the box is possible and it's not running any services.
>
This was solved, it turned out that I had a TYAN mother board with onboard 
SATA controller, which I updated the bios to the latest, and now 
everything is fine.