Yum hangs

[Rodolfo Alcazar]

On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 15:17 +0100, Frank Elsner wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> my "yum update" hangs :-(
> 
> # yum update
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> 
> 
> In an other xterm:
> 
> # ps -ef | grep yum
> root     12990  3614  0 15:06 pts/5    00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum update
> root     13280 13248  0 15:13 pts/10   00:00:00 grep yum
> # strace -p 12990
> Process 12990 attached - interrupt to quit
> futex(0xb7bf17b0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL
> 
> 
> What's going on? How to solve the problem?

Something similar happens me once in a while. Try 

rpm --initdb
rpm --rebuilddb

(once i needed to reboot, dont know which process hangs)

may the force be with you...

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