[CentOS] Yum upgrade to 4.4 problem

Thu Aug 31 15:15:15 UTC 2006
Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com>

On 31/08/06, Julio E. Gonzalez P. <jegp at netvision.com.py> wrote:
> I have the same problem here...
> Anyone has something to say about this?
> Thanks.
> Julio.

Try strace-ing the process ID of the yum process to see if it's stuck
at the "futex" call/stage. I tried blithely "yum update"-ing my test
system earlier and it hung on this.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=strace+futex&meta=

Now the system's in a little bit of a state consistency-wise.
Fortunately, we've covered this ground before. :)

*cuts*
*pastes*

Check the list archives for :

"futex.. How to remove lots of duplicate packages"

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-March/thread.html#62319

"yum update killed on cleanup stage - anything to worry about?"

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-March/thread.html#62568


Will.