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. > > -- > Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >