[CentOS] yum freezing when removing old kernel

David Evennou de at data-masters.com
Mon Dec 10 00:21:10 UTC 2007


Hi Karanbir,

Thanks for the tip. Are you using an email reader that you can set to bottom 
post automatically?

Thanks,
David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karanbir Singh" <mail-lists at karan.org>
To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] yum freezing when removing old kernel


> David Evennou wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> I am experiencing the same problem on two of my systems running CentOS 5. 
>> I get an error message after a long timeout, "could not retrieve 
>> mirrorlist". Please let me know if you find a way around this problem.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com>
>> To: <centos at centos.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:24 PM
>> Subject: [CentOS] yum freezing when removing old kernel
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>    Today i ran a yum update and installed kernel 2.6.18.53.1 from 
>>> centosplus. I then rebooted to ensure i was running it. I was and went 
>>> to remove the previous kernel and kernel-devel packages v2.6.18.53 also 
>>> from centosplus. In both cases yum gets to the running transaction check 
>>> then hangs, i don't get any errors it just sits there. I have to 
>>> manually kill the yum process to resolve this. This does not happen with 
>>> any other package add/removals. Any suggestions?
>>> Thanks.
>>> Dave.
>
> try running yum with -d9, and see if the extra info gives you more info, 
> something that might help diagnose the issue. For issues such as 'could 
> not retrieve mirrorlist, I'd suspect a network issue .
>
> Also, try not to top post, it makes it hard to make sense our of what you 
> are saying and how it relates to the previous email.
>
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