yum completely freezes as root

[Karl Larsen]

Ken Schutte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a fresh F7 install, and yum was working fine for awhile, but 
> now is *completely* freezing anytime its run as root.  I have to kill 
> any yum jobs with "kill -s KILL".
>
> I've notice things work when run from my user account, such as:
> $ yum search foo
> However, everything run as root freezes,
> $ su
    Try it after you do a su - in a terminal window. The simple su gives 
you a sort-of root. The su - makes it a real root termial.
 
> # yum
>
> ie even 'yum' with no args freezes!  There is no output, but just 
> hangs.  Any ideas?
>
> thanks,
> Ken
>


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