F9: Yum is hanging on "Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit"

[Dan Thurman]

As the subject line says, Yum hangs as follows:

# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
<hang>

I cannot use yum again, even when I kill the yum process.

What can I do to fix this, short of rebooting?

Thanks!
Dan

[Arkadiy Butermanov]

2008/7/4 Daniel B. Thurman :
> As the subject line says, Yum hangs as follows:
>
> # yum update
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
>
> <hang>
>
> I cannot use yum again, even when I kill the yum process.
>
> What can I do to fix this, short of rebooting?
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>
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I think you can delete this trouble:
1. download yumex (yum install yumex) - this is graphic interface for yum
2. Go to File >> Parameters >> Installed plugins
3. Put off flag from checkbox))

[Dan Thurman]

Arkadiy Butermanov wrote:
> 2008/7/4 Daniel B. Thurman <[e-mail] >:
> As the subject line says, Yum hangs as follows:
>
> # yum update
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> <hang>
>
> I cannot use yum again, even when I kill the yum process.
>
> What can I do to fix this, short of rebooting?
>
> I think you can delete this trouble:
> download yumex (yum install yumex) - this is graphic interface for yum
> Go to File >> Parameters >> Installed plugins
> Put off flag from checkbox))

Hmm...  it looks like what is really hanging is rpm.  It freezes up.

So, I guess the next question is: how do I fix this?  I cannot even
rebuild the rpm database since rpm itself hangs?

Thanks!
Dan

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:05 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Arkadiy Butermanov wrote:
> > 2008/7/4 Daniel B. Thurman :
> >         As the subject line says, Yum hangs as follows:
> >     # yum update
> >     Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> >     <hang>
> >
> >     I cannot use yum again, even when I kill the yum process.
> >
> >     What can I do to fix this, short of rebooting?
> >
> > I think you can delete this trouble:
> > download yumex (yum install yumex) - this is graphic interface
> >
> > for yum
> > 2. Go to File >> Parameters >> Installed plugins
> > 3. Put off flag from checkbox))
>
> Hmm...  it looks like what is really hanging is rpm.  It freezes up.
>
> So, I guess the next question is: how do I fix this?  I cannot even
> rebuild the rpm database since rpm itself hangs?

----
service yum-updatesd stop
ps aux|grep yum # kill off any running yum processes
ps aux|grep rpm # kill off any running rpm processes

# if necessary, delete the region db's...

rm /var/lib/rpm/__*db

# then

rpm --rebuilddb

Craig

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:31 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:05 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > Arkadiy Butermanov wrote:
> > > 2008/7/4 Daniel B. Thurman :
> > >         As the subject line says, Yum hangs as follows:
> > >     # yum update
> > >     Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> > >     <hang>
> > >
> > >     I cannot use yum again, even when I kill the yum process.
> > >
> > >     What can I do to fix this, short of rebooting?
> > >
> > > I think you can delete this trouble:
> > > download yumex (yum install yumex) - this is graphic interface
> > >
> > > for yum
> > > 2. Go to File >> Parameters >> Installed plugins
> > > 3. Put off flag from checkbox))
> >
> > Hmm...  it looks like what is really hanging is rpm.  It freezes up.
> >
> > So, I guess the next question is: how do I fix this?  I cannot even
> > rebuild the rpm database since rpm itself hangs?
>
> service yum-updatesd stop
> ps aux|grep yum # kill off any running yum processes
> ps aux|grep rpm # kill off any running rpm processes
>
> # if necessary, delete the region db's...
>
> rm /var/lib/rpm/__*db
>
> # then
>
> rpm --rebuilddb

----
error...region files...

rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
rpm --rebuilddb

Craig

[Dan Thurman]

Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:31 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:05 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> > > Arkadiy Butermanov wrote:
> > > > 2008/7/4 Daniel B. Thurman :
> > > >         As the subject line says, Yum hangs as follows:
> > > >     # yum update
> > > >     Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> > > >     <hang>
> > > >
> > > >     I cannot use yum again, even when I kill the yum process.
> > > >
> > > >     What can I do to fix this, short of rebooting?
> > > >
> > > > I think you can delete this trouble:
> > > > download yumex (yum install yumex) - this is graphic interface
> > > >
> > > > for yum
> > > > 2. Go to File >> Parameters >> Installed plugins
> > > > 3. Put off flag from checkbox))
> > >
> > > Hmm...  it looks like what is really hanging is rpm.  It freezes up.
> > >
> > > So, I guess the next question is: how do I fix this?  I cannot even
> > > rebuild the rpm database since rpm itself hangs?
> >
> > service yum-updatesd stop
> > ps aux|grep yum # kill off any running yum processes
> > ps aux|grep rpm # kill off any running rpm processes
> >
> > # if necessary, delete the region db's...
> >
> > rm /var/lib/rpm/__*db
> >
> > # then
> >
> > rpm --rebuilddb
>
> error...region files...
>
> rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
> rpm --rebuilddb
>
> Craig

yup!  That did the trick!

Thanks Craig!
Dan