[Yum] hang in 96

[Farkas Levente]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 07:23, Farkas Levente wrote:
> 
>>hi,
>>I'm just upgrade to 1.96 and after I try to do an install (for the 
>>freshrpms repo) and yum goes to eat 100% cpu and hang in:
>>---------------------
>>#yum install alsa-utils
>>Gathering package information from servers
>>Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base
>>Getting headers from: Freshrpms NET - local
>>Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates
>>Finding updated packages
>>Downloading needed headers
>>Resolving dependencies
>><here comes the ctrl-c>
>>---------------------
> 
> 
> yum -d 4 install alsa-utils
> 
> it's doing _something_ -d4 will tell us what.

it seems there is a loop somewhere:

....
Downloading needed headers
nulist = 981
uplist = 0
newlist = 981
obsoleting = 0
obsoleted = 0
state - iu: alsa-utils, i386
Resolving dependencies
Updating: alsa-utils, i386
Updating: alsa-utils, i386
# of Deps = 1
dep: alsa-utils req alsa-driver - 0.9.2 - 0
alsa-utils wants redhat/9/alsa-driver/alsa-driver-0.9.2-fr2.i386.rpm
bestarch = i586 for alsa-driver
Got dep: alsa-driver, i586
Restarting Dependency Loop
Updating: alsa-driver, i586
Updating: alsa-utils, i386
# of Deps = 2
dep: alsa-driver req alsa-kernel - 0.9.0rc3 - 0
Got Extra Dep: alsa-driver, i586
dep: alsa-utils req alsa-driver - 0.9.2 - 0
alsa-utils wants redhat/9/alsa-driver/alsa-driver-0.9.2-fr2.i386.rpm
bestarch = i586 for alsa-driver
Got dep: alsa-driver, i586
Restarting Dependency Loop
Updating: alsa-driver, i586
Updating: alsa-utils, i386
# of Deps = 2
dep: alsa-driver req alsa-kernel - 0.9.0rc3 - 0
Got Extra Dep: alsa-driver, i586
dep: alsa-utils req alsa-driver - 0.9.2 - 0
alsa-utils wants redhat/9/alsa-driver/alsa-driver-0.9.2-fr2.i386.rpm
bestarch = i586 for alsa-driver
Got dep: alsa-driver, i586
Restarting Dependency Loop
Updating: alsa-driver, i586
Updating: alsa-utils, i386
# of Deps = 2
dep: alsa-driver req alsa-kernel - 0.9.0rc3 - 0
Got Extra Dep: alsa-driver, i586
dep: alsa-utils req alsa-driver - 0.9.2 - 0
alsa-utils wants redhat/9/alsa-driver/alsa-driver-0.9.2-fr2.i386.rpm
bestarch = i586 for alsa-driver
Got dep: alsa-driver, i586
Restarting Dependency Loop
Updating: alsa-driver, i586
Updating: alsa-utils, i386
....
etc...


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   Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"