On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:31:01PM -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote: > I installed the x86_64 version of FC4 Saturday and attempted to update > using: > > yum -y update > > I get through the download of the headers and the RPMs, but during the > actual update yum hangs, and cannot be aborted with control-C. I've > tried twice and yum seems to hang in different places or it gets to the > transaction check (after the package download) then stops with no > messages. > > When the problem occurs, I cannot su, nor can I ssh in from another > machine. The computer is not hung, ssh and su prompt for a password, > but a shell prompt never appears. I had this problem on my x86_64 FC4 system as well. > > I tried updating yum, selinux and pam separately, and turning off > selinux to no avail. > > I believe this to be the problem posted in: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-October/msg01035.html Yes, same here. useradd hangs during the yum update. You can't login from anywhere anymore. Current logins seem OK. To solve this I installed my system then updated a few things at a time and sprinkled in some reboots on the way. This is not scientific but I now have a system that looks consistent. Here is what I did from my .bash_history file: yum check-update yum update glibc glibc-devel yum update pam yum update selinux* kernel* shutdown -r now yum update zlib yum ypserv yum update lib* yum update xorg* yum update udev yum update audit* binutils coreutils dbus* devhelp yum update glib2 pwlib rpm* shadow* slib* setup shutdown -r now yum update -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
