[CentOS] Yum hangs while doing update
m.roth at 5-cent.us
m.roth at 5-cent.us
Mon Jul 1 17:43:03 UTC 2013
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....
mark
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