On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:02 -0400, 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 run x86_64 with no problems ... > What kind of install is it, Workstation or Server? > After the upgrade where RPM is upgraded, it is actually a good idea to > rebuild the database. > The machine I use to autobuild all updates is an x86_64 machine that > runs with 6 chroots. The install was a kickstart install with mostly defaults. I dont think you can specify server/desktop variations in the kickstart, and I dont know if that would make a difference, other than default package selection ? I did a default install from the DVD and it should not make the mahcine useless to run "yum update" I would like to figure out what it is that is broken. I am not an expert in this field, and having troubles narrowing it down. It is definitely not faulty hardware, although it could be hardware incompatibilities, but CentOS-3 worked perfectly fine.