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

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 22:12 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> 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.

Sounds vaguely like my:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860500

though I haven't seen that lately. If it happens again, try running a
yum operation in another terminal and see if that clears the blockage.
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