On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 15:09 -0600, drew einhorn wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Akemi Yagi<amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Dave Stevens<geek at uniserve.com> wrote: > >> As you can see below I am having a problem checking for updates. This > >> happens repeatedly. I have to kill the process then rerun. I have > >> tried "yum clean all" but no joy - the process hangs again on "extras" > > I suspect it is the non-CentOS repos that are causing the hang (?). > > > > You might want to check that by running: > > > > yum update --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base,extras,updates > > > > and see if this one runs fine. > > This will get things back to standard repos only. > > But if you have already loaded an incompatible package from a > nonstandard repo, this will not fix it. This is related to the problem at hand how? > Rather than trying to figure out what you have and how to fix it, > it may be easier to start over an build a new system from scratch. This isn't Windows. > You can probably get the 3rd party repos to play nicer with one another > by using yum-priorities. This is related to the problem at hand how? > There are techniques for finer grained management of > compatiblity issues among repositories, that I have never > needed to learn about. Someday this is going to sneak > up and bite me. Yes, probably, but still not related to the problem at hand. > Pretty sure there is a 3rd party repo page in the centos wiki. Yes, but you couldn't be bothered to check, could you? Sometimes it would be smarter to not try to help. Ralph