Date:  Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:27:38 -0500
From:  "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:07671] Re: Yum stuck or bust
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <073b01c6f50c$4c3285f0$0301a8c0@Jerrycp>
In-Reply-To:  <F07DD4D0940AFF41A207BE85479D2AFF1BFC3C (at mark) server.mainline.local>
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> 
> Help! My yum update is stuck! Yum has been running for days 
> it seems and going nowhere. 
> 
> [root@server1 ~]# ps aux | grep yum
> root     20912  0.0  0.0  5996 1356 ?        S    Oct19   
> 0:00 /bin/bash
> /usr/sausalito/handlers/nuonce-solarspeed/yum/yum_update
> root     20915  0.0  0.8 30924 21948 ?       S    Oct19   0:08
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum -y update
> root      6478  0.0  0.0  4164  684 pts/0    R+   12:20   
> 0:00 grep yum
> 
> The GUI shows "Update in Progress" on the YUM updater page 
> but nothing else happening.
> 
> I could reboot the server but it is a working server and 200 
> miles away so don't want to break anything
> 
> What to do Blues?

Try tailing yum.log ( tail -f /var/log/yum.log ) and see if any updates
are in progress.

If not, then killing the update process, shouldn't hurt anything.
  kill `pidof /usr/sausalito/handlers/nuonce-solarspeed/yum/yum_update`
Then try running 'yum update' from a shell session.

Gerald