[CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

Mon Jan 12 20:17:18 UTC 2009
Pintér Tibor <tibyke at tibyke.hu>

> It doesn't ask if its ok.  But
> if I type y<enter> it reports:
>    Is this ok [y/N]: Downloading Packages:
> 
> Then it does nothing.  I can't kill it
> with CRTL-C, but I killed the yum process
> with kill -9 from another window.
> I retried it several times; same result.

tried deleting /var/lib/rpm/__* after killing all yum processes?

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