On 9/7/05, Dave Gutteridge dave@tokyocomedy.com wrote:
Can you please post RAM/CPU, specific version of operating system, and the result of "yum list updates" if it does complete?
512MB Ram, Pentium3, 500Mhz.
Ok, this should be fine.
[root@localhost ~]# yum list updates Setting up Repos addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 kbs-CentOS-Extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 kbs-CentOS-Misc 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files kbs-CentOS: ################################################## 1572/1572 kbs-CentOS: ################################################## 61/61 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 49 kB 00:00 MD Read : ################################################## 124/124 update : ################################################## 124/124 dag : ################################################## 2458/2458 base : ################################################## 1406/1406 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 98 kB 00:01 MD Read : ################################################## 326/326 freshrpms : ################################################## 326/326 extras : ################################################## 32/32 Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished
So, looks like you have nothing to update, right? So yum must work well enough that you can update your system :)
"antiquated" really needs to be old for it to not work with yum.
That's good to know. I don't think my computer is "antiquated", although it is getting long in the tooth. It would be nice to clear this detail up.
Your machine seems like it should be fine - I agree it's only a little old, but should be fine in terms of speed if none of the hardware is just flat failing.
Two more details: Yum usually works fine for the first little while after I start the computer. When it freezes, it usually occurs after the computer has been on for a while, or if I've run YUM a couple of time, say, searching for a particular package. I also keep getting this annoying error message: /sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libk3bdevice.so.2.0.0.#prelink#.X8kEMh is empty, not checked. I tried turning "prelinking" off by editing a file... though I can't remember off hand which file that was right now. It was weeks ago, and it didn't help anyway. The error still happens now and again.
Generally speaking, running yum several times a day shouldn't just cause problems on it's own. However, if you frequently are searching, it can be handy to do a "yum list installed > YumInstalled.txt" and "yum list available > YumAvailable.txt" and then do a grep on the resulting text files rather than starting/re-running yum each time. Also, if you feel like upgrading to yum2.4 then yum should be faster and you can use the yum shell to do your searching in a more efficient manner.
Maciej says to delete your prelink file - I don't know enough to know if that will help, but as far as I can see you don't have a specific problem per se, just that yum is slow which has been addressed in 2.4 and can also be worked around.
Greg