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. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq