[Yum] yum update hanging...

[Sean O'Connell]

I have seen this on a redhat linux 9 box with an older version of rpm.
This seems to affect both RHL8 and 9 machines. The fix was to:

cd /var/lib/rpm
rm __db.*

grab a newer version rpm (4.2.1 for RHL9, I don't recall the version for
8) and do an rpm -U with the appropo version. If yum works after that,
you are golden. You might need to do a reboot to clear processes locking
up the rpm db.

Hope this helps.
Sean

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:49, Theresa Chen wrote:
> Recently installed 2.0.1 on a dual 400Mhz processor, with scsi harddrives.
> Whenever I do a 'yum update', it hangs at the "Resolving dependencies..."
> part (last time it was 40 min and it didn't even start downloading the
> packages).  Anyone else with a similar problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Theresa
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