Date:  Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:24:52 +0200
From:  Kristian Eklund <kristian.eklund (at mark) monostar.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:07672] Re: Yum stuck or bust
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <453A1FA4.8040604 (at mark) monostar.net>
In-Reply-To:  <F07DD4D0940AFF41A207BE85479D2AFF1BFC3C (at mark) server.mainline.local>
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> 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?

You can always kill the processes;
killall yum_update
killall yum

And then re-run 'yum update' from the console. Don't use -y unless you
really know you want all the updates.

And remove that YUM GUI-crap and always run YUM from the console. The
GUI sure gives more problems than not using it.

/Kristian