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

[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 <dant(a)cdkkt.com&gt;:
>  > > >         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:
>  > > > 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))
>  > >
>  > > 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

[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 <dant(a)cdkkt.com&gt;:
>  > >         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:
>  > > 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))
>  > 
>  > 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

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 15:05 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>  Arkadiy Butermanov wrote: 
>  > 2008/7/4 Daniel B. Thurman <dant(a)cdkkt.com&gt;:
>  >         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:
>  > 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))
>  
>  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

[Dan Thurman]

Arkadiy Butermanov wrote:
>  2008/7/4 Daniel B. Thurman <dant(a)cdkkt.com
> <mailto:[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:
>  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)) 
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

[Arkadiy Butermanov]

2008/7/4 Daniel B. Thurman <dant(a)cdkkt.com&gt;:

>  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))