[CentOS] yum install hangs

[Carlos Santana]

Thanks Niki.

More specifically it hangs after:
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test

If I did yum clean all while app. is running then I get following message:
[root at localhost ~]# yum clean all
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 17097.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...

If pid file is removed then I can do clean all, however the processes
still exist:
[root at localhost ~]# rm /var/run/yum.pid
rm: remove regular file `/var/run/yum.pid'? y
[root at localhost ~]# yum clean all
Cleaning up Everything
[root at localhost ~]# ps ax | grep -i yum*
16794 ?        S      0:05 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum install lsof
17097 pts/1    S+     0:04 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum install lsof
17137 pts/2    S+     0:00 grep -i yum*


Any clues?

-
CS


On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Niki Kovacs<contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:
> Carlos Santana a écrit :
>> Howdy,
>>
>> The yum install <package> hangs in between. This happened few days as
>> well, but just after doing Ctrl+C it reported error with mirror and
>> switched to another one. Today, however, it is not responding to
>> Ctrl+C and kill or kill -9 command is also not working. Any clues?
>
> Yes. From time to time, do the following:
>
> # yum clean all
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
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