On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:22 -0400, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:02 -0400, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
I've had this exact same problem, and I uninstalled yum reinstalled it and it work for a day and then back to the same. I've also had it working temporarily by doing a yum clean-all then yum makecache. But next day it went back to doing the same old hang up. I'm not sure if this is a yum problem or a centos problem.
I was having this exact issue recently. Or at least, Yum was hanging at the same stage as what you describe.
It was recommended to me on this list to do the following:
cd /var/lib/rpm rm __db.00* rpm --rebuilddb
This seems to have cleared up the problem for me. It might work for you.
Are you running x86_64 ? Or is anyone here running x86_64 CentOS 4 and having success with yum update ?
I run x86_64 with no problems ... What kind of install is it, Workstation or Server? After the upgrade where RPM is upgraded, it is actually a good idea to rebuild the database. The machine I use to autobuild all updates is an x86_64 machine that runs with 6 chroots.
The install was a kickstart install with mostly defaults. I dont think you can specify server/desktop variations in the kickstart, and I dont know if that would make a difference, other than default package selection ?
Just wondering if you are installing a bunch of i386 stuff (Open Office, etc., or mostly just x86_64 stuff) It shouldn't matter, you should be able to install packages and upgrade all the items with no issues.
I did a default install from the DVD and it should not make the mahcine useless to run "yum update"
That is true ... useless machines are not part of our goals :)
I would like to figure out what it is that is broken. I am not an expert in this field, and having troubles narrowing it down.
Ok, this sounds like some kind of driver issue with SATA. What kernel are you running (uname -r)?
What kind of machine (model of motherboard and/or machine)?
Do you have the latest BIOS update for the motherboard and the SATA controller.
Is the controller for the hard drive(s) built onto the motherboard or is it a separate controller?
Are you running RAID or LVM2 (or both)?
It is definitely not faulty hardware, although it could be hardware incompatibilities, but CentOS-3 worked perfectly fine.