Dave wrote:
This is the second time on a version upgrade that I've been hit with the futex wait issue. Last time I hung with about 5 packages to go, this time it hung with about 50 packages on the clean up. Now I have loads of duplicate packages, any way to search and/or remove them without trying to do it manually? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I have had this happen a few times in the past too where yum failed after installing about 100 out of 125 packages. This causes the cleanup to not get done for the 100 that were installed.
I tend to not use a yum update that would update all of the packages at once when I know a bunch of updates are pending like going from one release to another for that reason.
I get a list of all updates and update them one by one so that if yum fails in the middle only the last update(and dependencies for that one update) would be affected.
It would be nice if yum had an option to do this(perform cleanup after each package is installed). I created a script to do this(I called it safeyumupdate.sh) but I can't seem to find it anymore.