While updating my centOS workstation the other day, I find the update hanging at the line: Updating : udev ##################### [153/398]
I followed the advice of waiting a long time. So I waited at least 2 hours (lunch helped). I know there are always problems interrupting updates.
Finaly, I killed active processes like 10-hal.dev with all kind of parameters (sound, tty, block...) which I could summarize as a huge part of the /dev. There were 2 actives at a time and killing one allowed the next one.
Then, yum update finaly continued updating and finished his job. The reboot went smoothly.
Questions:
1. Am I the only one with this problem?
2. Could I get problems following my killings? I suspect that there were onyl timeouts, but I know nothing about udev.
3. Any idea of what could have been wrong?
4. Are there advices of a better update strategy?
Since centos 4.0, this is my first update problem (4.3 to 4.4).
Anne