Here is the procedure I have used to fix yum when it hangs. Usually, I will find one or more of the following kinds of rpm processes “running”:<\/p>\n
# ps -ef | grep rpm
\nroot 27265 26840 0 Feb05 ? 00:00:00 awk -v progname=\/etc\/cron.daily\/rpm progname {????? print progname “:\\n”????? progname=””;???? }???? { print; }<\/p>\n
The first thing I do is cancel or kill my yum processes. Then, I kill all the running rpm processes using the following:<\/p>\n
# killall -9 -r “.*rpmq.*”<\/p>\n
Next, I remove all the __ files in the \/var\/lib\/rpm directory:<\/p>\n
# cd \/var\/lib\/rpm
\n# ls
\nBasenames __db.000 __db.002 Dirnames Group Name Providename Pubkeys Requireversion Sigmd5
\nConflictname __db.001 __db.003 Filemd5s Installtid Packages Provideversion Requirename Sha1header Triggername
\n# rm _*
\nrm: remove regular empty file `__db.000′? y
\nrm: remove regular file `__db.001′? y
\nrm: remove regular file `__db.002′? y
\nrm: remove regular file `__db.003′? y<\/p>\n
Then, rebuild the rpm database:<\/p>\n
# rpm –rebuilddb<\/p>\n
I usually clean out the yum cache files by running the following:<\/p>\n
# yum clean all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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