[CentOS] CentOS 4.1 yum update just hangs

[Robin Mordasiewicz]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:

> After installing 4.1, and running
> yum clean all
> yum list
> yum update
>
> It hangs at the point
>
> <snip>
> (52/57): cups-libs-1.1.22 100% |=========================| 109 kB    00:00
> (53/57): bzip2-devel-1.0. 100% |=========================|  35 kB    00:00
> (54/57): kdelibs-3.3.1-3. 100% |=========================|  15 MB    00:00
> (55/57): zlib-devel-1.2.1 100% |=========================|  94 kB    00:00
> (56/57): mod_ssl-2.0.52-1 100% |=========================| 100 kB    00:00
> (57/57): fetchmail-6.2.5- 100% |=========================| 581 kB    00:00
> Running Transaction Test
> </snip>
>
> It just sits there. I can ping the box, but I cannot ssh to the box. I can 
> not log into the console either.

I installed Centos 4 on another machine and it also hangs, but it hangs 
at..

(54/57): kdelibs-3.3.1-3. 100% |=========================|  15 MB    00:00
(55/57): zlib-devel-1.2.1 100% |=========================|  94 kB    00:00
(56/57): mod_ssl-2.0.52-1 100% |=========================| 100 kB    00:00
(57/57): fetchmail-6.2.5- 100% |=========================| 581 kB    00:00
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Updating: zlib 100 % done 1/114

and again this new machine becomes unrepsonsive, but it looks like it has 
not hung, rather seems to be out of resources. Both of these machines 
worked fine under Centos 3