System Hang on Update...

[Ed Greshko]

Not sure if this is was a quirk or if others will encounter a problem.  This is an F18-64 system and today I just did a "yum update".  The following packages were being updated....

Jan 19 17:20:00 Updated: perl-Git-1.8.1-1.fc18.noarch
Jan 19 17:20:03 Updated: git-1.8.1-1.fc18.x86_64
Jan 19 17:20:04 Updated: 2:nmap-ncat-6.01-9.fc18.x86_64
Jan 19 17:20:05 Updated: brltty-4.3-12.fc18.x86_64
Jan 19 17:20:07 Updated: brlapi-0.5.6-12.fc18.x86_64
Jan 19 17:20:10 Updated: firewalld-0.2.12-1.fc18.noarch
Jan 19 17:20:10 Updated: firewall-config-0.2.12-1.fc18.noarch
Jan 19 17:20:11 Updated: python-brlapi-0.5.6-12.fc18.x86_64
Jan 19 17:20:12 Updated: 2:nmap-6.01-9.fc18.x86_64
Jan 19 17:20:13 Updated: lsof-4.87-1.fc18.x86_64
Jan 19 17:20:14 Updated: apper-0.8.0-2.fc18.x86_64
Jan 19 17:20:15 Updated: libcdr-0.0.9-2.fc18.x86_64

When the system got to the "cleanup" phase the last line printed was that it was cleaning up firewalld.

The system then hung totally.  No cursor movement and system unreachable via ssh.  No disk activity.l

On reboot I was left with rpmdb errors showing multiple versions of nmap-ncat, brltty, firewalld, lsof, firewall-config, libcdr and apper installed.  Fixed that and all is well.

This is the only time I can recall my system getting totally hung while doing an update.


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