Yum update seems to have stalled

[Claude Jones]

Phillip T. George wrote:
| Claude Jones wrote:
|| I'm doing a reinstall and am now going through the update
|| process. It found a huge number of upgrades and was moving
|| through them, but now, on 933/969 it's been stalled for half
|| an hour on 'completing update for gimp'. Is this normal? If
|| not, what happens if I abort? If I choose to abort, is there a
|| preferred way? 
|| 
| I've noticed with FC2 that if you do A LOT of updates, that it
| will sometimes hang and not return or not return for a very
| long time.  I would just not do as many updates.
| 

Thanks, but that doesn't really answer my question. This thing is
sitting here obviously stalled, and I'm wondering what the best
approach is to dealing with that. Do I cold reboot - is there some
keystroke combo that might result in minimal damage? Or some other
way? Actually, I've rebuilt my systems a number of times during my
Linux learning curve, and after the DVD install, there are always
a huge number of updates the first time. I've never had a problem
with that up till now. The rpms have already all been downloaded -
it's just hung at the second phase of the installation phase - I'm
not sure how this works, but it seems like it makes a preliminary
pass of unpacking and installing the rpms, and then does a second
pass - perhaps to make all the links or something? It's that
'Completing' phase that's hanging...


Claude Jones
Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
Leesburg, VA, USA