same problem on p4 non-smp box. i upgraded yum and sqlite and now yum hangs while trying to read the xml data. i did a yum clean all and verified nothing was left in /var/cache/yum. i'll try strace/ltrace to see what i can find... On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Julio E. Gonzalez P. wrote: > 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?