[CentOS] Problem with yum

[Bowie Bailey]

 On 7/19/2010 1:00 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
> I am experiencing a problem with yum on one of my CentOS-5.5
> systems.  Specifically, on Friday past (July 16), I ran yum update
> as root.  Yum displayed all of the outdated packages and asked if I
> wanted to proceed.  An answered yes.  This first package downloaded
> was nss.  At this point yum simply stopped processing or responding.
>  A ctrl-c at the yum session terminal window did not interrupt the
> task.  Top did not display any yum processes.
>
> I killed that particular process to regain the console session, but
> I had to use -9 because nothing else worked.  Yum continues to
> behave in this strange manner.   Any invocation of yum with any
> option just stops responding.
>
> Before I manually remove yum and reinstall it using rpm could anyone
> provide a clue as to what might be happening here and how it might
> be cured.  I found this one entry from yum in the log files:
>
> /var/log/messages.1:Jul 16 00:14:43 gway01 kernel: Out of memory:
> Killed process 1380, UID 0, (yum-updatesd-he).
>
> However, this entry occurred some time before I attempted my update
> task later that same morning.
>
> I would like to be directly copied on any replies as I am a digest
> subscriber.

My first attempt would be to do a "yum clean all" and then try it again.

-- 
Bowie