AMD64 Yum Problems

[Bob Chiodini]

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 13:54 +1100, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:31:01PM -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> > I installed the x86_64 version of FC4 Saturday and attempted to update
> > using:
> > 
> > yum -y update
> > 
> > I get through the download of the headers and the RPMs, but during the
> > actual update yum hangs, and cannot be aborted with control-C.  I've
> > tried twice and yum seems to hang in different places or it gets to the
> > transaction check (after the package download) then stops with no
> > messages.
> > 
> > When the problem occurs, I cannot su, nor can I ssh in from another
> > machine.  The computer is not hung, ssh and su prompt for a password,
> > but a shell prompt never appears.
> 
> I had this problem on my x86_64 FC4 system as well.
> > 
> > I tried updating yum, selinux and pam separately, and turning off
> > selinux to no avail.
> > 
> > I believe this to be the problem posted in:
> > 
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-October/msg01035.html
> 
> Yes, same here. useradd hangs during the yum update. You can't login
> from anywhere anymore. Current logins seem OK.
> 
> To solve this I installed my system then updated a few things at a time
> and sprinkled in some reboots on the way. This is not scientific but I
> now have a system that looks consistent.
> 
> Here is what I did from my .bash_history file:
> 
> yum check-update
> yum update glibc glibc-devel
> yum update pam
> yum update selinux* kernel*
> shutdown -r now
> yum update zlib yum ypserv
> yum update lib*
> yum update xorg*
> yum update udev
> yum update audit* binutils coreutils dbus* devhelp
> yum update glib2 pwlib rpm* shadow* slib* setup
> shutdown -r now
> yum update
> 
> -- 
> Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator
> School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
> University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
> 
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> 

Norman,

Eric Smith, who posted the original message, suggested that the kernel
should be updated before any others.  I tried this last night and was
successful.  After a fresh install, I updated just the kernel, rebooted
and applied the other 640+ updates without problems.

Bob...