[CentOS] Re: Yum hangs at primary.xml.gz

On 8/4/05, Kevin Anderson kevanderson@adelphia.net wrote:

For some reason Yum now hangs at reading repository metadata in from local files. It gets anywhere between 22-27% and then just hangs. It was working previously, and I can't think of anything new that was done to this machine.

Hi.

Centos 3 or 4? Standard or newer yum?

Maybe a "yum clean all" would help?

Also, that can be a processor intensive action - what does top show? What happens if you just leave it running for an hour?

Another idea is that the yum folks are preparing to do a new release which will have lots of speed improvements. You could wait for that if you don't mind running non-centos packages.

Greg