try using strace -p PID-OF-YUM and output to mailinglist -- Eero 2013/7/1 ken <gebser at mousecar.com> > On 07/01/2013 02:04 PM Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On 07/01/2013 12:25 PM, ken wrote: > >> On 07/01/2013 01:21 PM Reindl Harald wrote: > >>> Am 01.07.2013 19:16, schrieb ken: > >>>> 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 > >>> what about look in dmesg and/or /var/log/messages? > >>> > >> No. Nothing relevant there. > > > > Normally, there are a couple of big things to check: > > > > 1. DNS is properly resolving the mirror and your the computer doing the > > update names. > > 2. You do not have a full /var/ or /tmp/ partition > > 3. You do not have a read only filesystem (usually due to a driver > > error ... full partitions will act the same way). Make sure you can > > write to /var/ and /tmp/ > > 4. Look at bandwidth to ensure it is not slow, look for a transparent > > webproxy in the path, etc. > > yum already got past the downloading phase of the update process (see > above), and as said above also, the filesystem is fine. So none of > those things come into play here. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >