Sorry, Centos 4.1 yum 2.2.1, and I'll try to leave it run for an hour -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On Behalf Of Greg Knaddison Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:50 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Re: Yum hangs at primary.xml.gz On 8/4/05, Kevin Anderson <kevanderson at 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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos