[CentOS] CentOS 4.1 yum update just hangs [SOLVED]
Robin Mordasiewicz
robin at bullseye.tv
Tue Aug 23 08:08:18 UTC 2005
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Remco Barendse wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Dave Gutteridge 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I was having this exact issue recently. Or at least, Yum was hanging at
>>> the same stage as what you describe.
>>>
>>> It was recommended to me on this list to do the following:
>>>
>>> cd /var/lib/rpm
>>> rm __db.00*
>>> rpm --rebuilddb
>>>
>>> This seems to have cleared up the problem for me. It might work for you.
>>
>> Are you running x86_64 ?
>> Or is anyone here running x86_64 CentOS 4 and having success with yum
>> update
>
> I am running x86_6 and had strange problems twice after running yum update.
> You didn't state you are using x86 or x86_64 CentOS DVD but I am assuming it
> is the x86_64 DVD?? I used x86_64
>
> The first time after a system crash (which I caused) the box was unable to
> compile anything. The second time I had hang problems too. I just nuked the
> box and am running a non updated CentOS 4.1 x86_64. For me it's no problem.
> no access to the box is possible and it's not running any services.
>
This was solved, it turned out that I had a TYAN mother board with onboard
SATA controller, which I updated the bios to the latest, and now
everything is fine.
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