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 Yum displayed all of the outdated packages and asked if I 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