[CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 20:13:26 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Dave Stevens<geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> As you can see below I am having a problem checking for updates. This
> happens repeatedly. I have to kill the process then rerun. I have
> tried "yum clean all" but no joy - the process hangs again on "extras"
> - see second listing below. Suggestions?
>
> Dave
>
> [root at cserver ~]# yum check-update
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * epel: fedora.mirror.facebook.net
>  * base: ftp.telus.net
>  * updates: ftp.telus.net
>  * addons: ftp.telus.net
>  * extras: ftp.telus.net
> epel                                                     | 2.1 kB     00:00
> virtualmin                                               |  951 B     00:00
> pgdg83                                                   | 1.9 kB     00:00
> virtualmin-universal                                     |  951 B     00:00
> base                                                     | 1.1 kB     00:00
> updates                                                  |  951 B     00:00
> addons                                                   |  951 B     00:00
> extras                                                   | 1.1 kB     00:00

I suspect it is the non-CentOS repos that are causing the hang (?).

You might want to check that by running:

yum update --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base,extras,updates

and see if this one runs fine.

Akemi



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