Cleanup : libuser-devel-0.57.6-2.fc18.x86_64 hangs yum STAT

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R]

On 10/14/2012 08:26 PM, John Reiser wrote:
> On 10/14/2012 05:42 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>> On 10/14/2012 05:25 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>>> Cleanup    : libuser-devel-0.57.6-2.fc18.x86_64                       313/569
>>>
>>> Makes yum hang.  Is there a fix?  Killing yum leaves the yum database
>>> corrupted and may render Linux unbootable.
>>>
>> It finally finished. Took a very long time.
>>
> Please quantify how long.  +/- 50% if you must, but "very long" is not useful.
>
> Your posts differ by 17 minutes.  That long?  Or did that 17 minutes
> include one or more attempts to reproduce the problem,
> or extraneous distractions, etc.?
>
When yum wedged on cleanup of that package I waited a minute or two,
then wrote the first message.  Normally cleanup for a package
takes a fraction of a second.

I would guess yum was wedged for 5-10 minutes on an operation that
normally takes less tan a second.

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