[CentOS] yum update freeze... SOLVED

Mon May 11 13:05:48 UTC 2009
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

From: John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>
> my yum update freezed on the mkinitrd (second time it happens in 5.3):

I had an old usb device that did not "disconnect" properly...
It is not in mtab; but there is a /dev/sdg1 "phantom" device...
I removed the usb_storage module and it solved the problem.

JD