On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 12:32 -0600, Zube wrote:

Two identical machines, both running CentOS 4.3 plus all the errata.

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Suggestions for future tries on other machines?

My first attempt aborted, but at a much nicer place. Right at the end of the downloads. I rebooted and took the simplistic view (may apply, I was also 4.3 all updates and the occasional Extra or Plus goodie).

Feeling it was the typical Linux VM issue, I ran yum check-update and put the output into a list. I split it into two pieces (about 130 entries each, IIRC), made each an update script and ran one. It worked, pulling in dependencies as needed. I ran the other.

The only anomaly so far is iproute wanting to update again. I let it.

Thanks much, Zube

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HTH -- Bill

On Thu Aug 31 12:32:35 PM, Zube wrote:

Two identical machines, both running CentOS 4.3 plus all the errata.

First one:

yum update

went for a while and hung. At the bottom of the yum.log file was this:

Aug 31 06:58:01 Updated: control-center.i386 1:2.8.0-12.rhel4.5 Aug 31 06:58:09 Updated: iiimf-le-unit.i386 1:12.1-13.EL.5 Aug

The python process was in the process list, but it was consuming no CPU time. I let it go for a couple of hours, then killed it and played with the duplicate removal script posted previously.

Second one:

I tried a combination of suggestions previously posted:

yum clean all yum update yum sqlite python-sqlite python-urlgrabber python-elementtree yum clean all yum upgrade

This also ran for a while and then hung in a similar fashion. The tail of the yum.log is:

Aug 31 11:29:08 Updated: at.i386 3.1.8-80_EL4 Aug 31 11:29:09 Updated: samba-client.i386 3.0.10-1.4E.9 Aug 31 11:29:21 Updated: anaconda.i386 10.1.1.46-1.cento

Following up to my own message, upgrades to 4.4 have been much smoother with:

yum update yum sqlite python-sqlite ; yum update

I've yet to experience a hang using this. Many thanks to Karanbir Singh for the suggestion.

Cheers, Zube