> On 10/02/12 10:50, John Doe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Running Transaction >> Updating : selinux-policy >> 1/6 >> Updating : kmod-r8168 >> 2/6 >> Working. This may take some time ... >> >> >> An hour later, still working... >> > > Wow. These kmods can take quite some time to update/install in yum, > hence the informational message, but I've not yet seen one take an hour! > > How many kernels do you have installed as time is proportional to the > number of kernels the module has to install against. Is it a > particularly slow/old system, maybe short on memory? > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I don't recall, now, if I've replied to this thread or not, but... I ran into a similar issue a few weeks ago...it turned out that I was having an issue with my /tmp filesystem (at least)...I couldn't even perform an orderly shutdown -r. I wound up hard booting, during which /tmp was fsck'd, clearing a fair number of orphaned inodes, and my yum update ran just fine after that. Just a thought. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org http://dogpound2.citadel.org https://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email to: site-update-subscribe at bubbanfriends.org