[CentOS] upgrade to 4.4 hangs

Thu Aug 31 18:32:35 UTC 2006
Zube <Zube at CS.ColoState.EDU>

Two identical machines, both running CentOS 4.3 plus all the errata.

First one:

yum update

went for a while and hung.  At the bottom of the yum.log file was this:

Aug 31 06:58:01 Updated: control-center.i386 1:2.8.0-12.rhel4.5
Aug 31 06:58:09 Updated: iiimf-le-unit.i386 1:12.1-13.EL.5
Aug

The python process was in the process list, but it was consuming no
CPU time.  I let it go for a couple of hours, then killed it and played
with the duplicate removal script posted previously.

Second one:

I tried a combination of suggestions previously posted:

yum clean all
yum update yum sqlite python-sqlite python-urlgrabber python-elementtree
yum clean all
yum upgrade

This also ran for a while and then hung in a similar fashion.  The tail
of the yum.log is:

Aug 31 11:29:08 Updated: at.i386 3.1.8-80_EL4
Aug 31 11:29:09 Updated: samba-client.i386 3.0.10-1.4E.9
Aug 31 11:29:21 Updated: anaconda.i386 10.1.1.46-1.cento

Suggestions for future tries on other machines?

Thanks much,
Zube