[CentOS] Yum hangs while doing update

Mon Jul 1 17:54:44 UTC 2013
ken <gebser at mousecar.com>

On 07/01/2013 01:43 PM m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> ken wrote:
>> About thirty minutes ago I started an update.  Everything downloaded
>> fine.  But when it came to "Running Transaction", it hung:
>>
>> ....
>> Running rpm_check_debug
>> Running Transaction Test
>> Finished Transaction Test
>> Transaction Test Succeeded
>> Running Transaction
>>     Updating       : xulrunner
>>       1/18
>>
>>
>> And there it sits still.
>>
>> There's plenty of disk space.  The load on the CPU is under 1.0.  There
>> is some disk activity, but no way so much as to cause anything to hang
>> and no major writing related to yum.  Disk reads are just about null,
>> except just now when I grep'ed for something to make sure that the disk
>> could be read.  I'm not using even half of the available RAM.
>>
>> Anyone else run into this problem?
>
> I've only run into it with an selinux policy update, when it apparently
> decided to relabel about 5 zillion files....

Well, selinux isn't one of the packages being updated, so that's not the 
problem here.  Good to know though.