[Yum] Yum stalled during update

[Doug Thistlethwaite]

Hello all,

I tried to install a RPM package the other day using yum install 
<package> and it seemed to lock up the window and never finish.  I gave 
up at the time and had to kill the yum process the next day as it had 
still not finished.

Now when I type "yum update"  I get a lockup after the following messages:

Setting up repositories
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B
00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 433 kB
00:04
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 433 kB
00:04
updates-re: ################################################## 1184/1184
Added 1184 new packages, deleted 0 old in 10.00 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 886 kB
00:08
extras    : ################################################## 3091/3091
Added 3091 new packages, deleted 0 old in 21.95 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 824 kB
00:08
base      : ################################################## 2772/2772
Added 2772 new packages, deleted 0 old in 17.65 seconds

I have looked in all of the log files I can think of and I do not see 
any messages. looking at the yum process, it appears to not be using any 
CPU and it has been running for over 3 hours.  Typically, a yum update 
takes only a few minutes on this machine.  I am running FC4 on this 
system.  Any ideas on how to get yum working again?  I didn't see any 
way to run the command and get a verbose output of its progress.

Thank you for your time!

Doug