[CentOS] Yum upgrade to 4.4 problem

Thu Aug 31 10:24:49 UTC 2006
Simen Thoresen <simentt at dolphinics.no>

CentOS 4.3 (SMP, x86_64, Athlon64 X2) with all pre-4.4 release updates 
applied.

Since I ran into the Yum issue at the previous upgrade, I first did
yum upgrade   to get the list of packages (6 to install, 206 to update).
I then did
yum upgrade yum     (which passed without issues)
yum upgrade sqlite  (which passed without isseus).

Fairly certain that yum now works correctly, I wanted to just do another 
small upgrade before doing the rest, and did
yum upgrade samba

[root at naboens ~]# yum upgrade samba
Setting up Upgrade Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
<no progress>

This seemed to hang, and a look at top showed yum consuming more and 
more memory, the system starting to swap and bog down and then become 
unresponsive (all swap exhausted, I was not quick enough to kill yum).

I was able to reproduce this on a different machine (also x86_64, SMP 
and Athlon64 X2), so it seems to be an actual problem. As I can play 
around a bit more on this machine, I tried doing a yum upgrade (without 
specifying samba) and it behaves the same (ie yum consuming increasing 
amounts of memory while "Reading repository metadata (etc)".

Has anyone else experienced and been able to resolve this?

-S
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Simen Thoresen, Dolphin ICS
Systems Administration and Wulfkit Support