[CentOS] Yum update frozen

[mike opoien]

Marco,

Its in the cleanup stage, so at this point its removing the headers
and rpms I believe.
Your system is updated, and isnt getting any revelant information from
the package servers.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Mike

On 9/11/06, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at mclink.it> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> about one hour ago, I did a "yum update" on a remote centos 4.3
> server. It said:
>
> Install      2 Package(s)
> Update      60 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> Total download size: 103 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
>
> then, after downloading:
>
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
>
> Running Transaction
>   Updating  : libgcc                       ##################### [  1/124]
>   Updating  : python-urlgrabber            ##################### [  2/124]
>   Updating  : hwdata                       ##################### [  3/124]
>
> and so on (note 124 packages, not 62), until it arrived at:
>
>
> Editing /etc/postfix/master.cf, adding missing entry for tlsmgr service
>   Updating  : yum                          ##################### [ 62/124]
>   Cleanup   : coreutils                    ##################### [ 63/124]
>   Cleanup   : net-tools                    ##################### [ 64/124]
>   Cleanup   : tar                          ##################### [ 65/124]
>   Cleanup   : postfix                      ##################### [ 66/124]
>   Cleanup   : file                         ##################### [ 67/124]
>   Cleanup   : grep                         ##################### [ 68/124]
>   Cleanup   : newt                         ##################### [ 69/124]
>   Cleanup   : python-sqlite                ##################### [ 70/124]
>   Cleanup   : rpm-build                    ##################### [ 71/124]
>   Cleanup   : mkinitrd                     ##################### [ 72/124]
>   Cleanup   : e2fsprogs                    ##################### [ 73/124]
>
> and then nothing more. It has remained stuck at that line for almost one
> hour now. Is something funny happening? What should I do? Hit Control-C,
> halt the system from another shell (during an upgrade????)?
> or should I simply ignore it?
>
> I have no problem to reinstall/reconfigure something if need be. I'm just
> worried to lose any contact with the server if I do the wrong thing
> during an apparently frozen update.
>
> TIA,
>         Marco
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