On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Kevin Anderson 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.
ok this is definitely not a hardware problem that I have.
This is definitley some kind of bug.
My environment is
1*SATA drive 2*AMD opteron x86_64
CentOS 4.1 installed from DVD
after running yum update the box becomes completely useless, I have seen kernel messages reporting EXT3 problems.
after running yum update I see on the console.
ATA3 BUG: timout without command.
I have 25 identical boxes that I would like to install CentOS on, but I cannot update without the boxes becoming useless. CentOS-3 worked perfectly fine.