another FC2 up2date hang problem

[M.Hockings]

Stewart Nelson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a new FC2 w/kernel 2.6.8-1.521 on an Athlon 1900+.
> When I try to run up2date 4.3.19 to update many packages,
> it gets as far as showing
> "Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies",
> and after a few seconds of heavy disk activity, hangs,
> taking almost no CPU, with the progress bar blank.
> No error messages are displayed, and other applications
> continue to run normally.
> 
> However, if I select a small subset of the packages,
> the update does not hang and the updated packages will
> install and run ok.  For example:
> Select all updates -- hangs.
> Select updates starting 'a' through 'd' -- hangs.
> Select 'a' -- ok.  Select 'b' -- ok.  Select 'c' -- ok.
> Select 'd' -- hangs.  Select half of 'd' -- ok.
> Select remaining 'd' -- ok.
> 
> In /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources, I had edited
> the yum fedora-core-2 and yum updates-released-fc2 lines
> to point to speedy local mirrors.  Also commented out
> the yum-mirror lines to ensure download from known
> sources.  I am in Paris and presently using ftp.crihan.fr .
> When it works, it is amazingly fast (> 700 kbytes / sec.,
> almost the limit of the 6 megabit DSL line)!  However, as
> a test, I tried other mirrors, clearing out /var/spool/up2date
> each time, to no avail.
> 
> After mnay repeated attempts, all updates eventually got
> installed.  Surprisingly, 'p' through 'x' went in one shot,
> even though this involved more packages and much more total
> data than cases that would fail.
> 
> Has anyone seen this before?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stewart

Yes, I see the same symptoms on a PII test install of FC2.  Our FC1 
based server machine can seem to consume any number of updates without 
this hang problem.  The FC1 machine has about 3x the memory so maybe 
that is the difference ?

Mie