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 ?