Strange yum update hang (or something else) in Rawhide .. how to debug this further?

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 19:17 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 02/04/2013 07:01 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 04:38:08PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>
> >>    Cleanup    : cpp-4.8.0-0.7.fc19.x86_64                                215/262
> >>    Cleanup    : gdb-7.5.50.20130118-2.fc19.x86_64                        216/262
> >>    Cleanup    : 1:findutils-4.5.10-7.fc19.x86_64                         217/262
> >>    Cleanup    : spice-server-0.12.2-2.fc19.x86_64                        218/262
> >>    Cleanup    : cracklib-2.8.22-2.fc19.x86_64                            219/262
> >>    Cleanup    : libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-1.0.1-6.fc19.x86_64      220/262
> >>    Cleanup    : libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-1.0.1-6.fc19.x86_64        221/262
> >>    Cleanup    : libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-1.0.1-6.fc19.x86_64       222/262
> >>    Cleanup    : libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-1.0.1-6.fc19.x86_64         223/262
> >>    Cleanup    : libvirt-daemon-1.0.1-6.fc19.x86_64                       224/262
> >>    Cleanup    : libvirt-client-1.0.1-6.fc19.x86_64                       225/262
> >>    Cleanup    : cyrus-sasl-2.1.25-2.fc19.x86_64                          226/262
> >>    Cleanup    : openldap-2.4.33-3.fc19.x86_64                            227/262
> >>    Cleanup    : nss-tools-3.14.1-3.fc19.x86_64                           228/262
> >>    Cleanup    : nss-sysinit-3.14.1-3.fc19.x86_64                         229/262
> >>    Cleanup    : nss-3.14.1-3.fc19.x86_64                                 230/262
> >> (and here it hangs, for at least 20 minutes)
> >
> > So how odd is this?  Suddenly it leaps back into life, after maybe
> > 30-40 minutes.
> 
> Sounds like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860500

Sure does. Funnily enough, when I first encountered it no-one else was,
and now other people are seeing it, I never seem to any more :/ So I
haven't been able to contribute any more to the report.
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