[CentOS] Yum upgrade to 4.4 problem

Thu Aug 31 14:54:25 UTC 2006
Julio E. Gonzalez P. <jegp at netvision.com.py>

I have the same problem here...
Anyone has something to say about this?
Thanks.
Julio.


Simen Thoresen wrote:
> 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