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.