John DeDourek wrote: > It appears that this morning's manual > "yum update" > is hanging. > It reported that it would update to > db4-devel-4.3.27-5.fc4 > db4-4.3.27-5.fc4 > db4-utils-4.3.27-5.fc4 > It passed the transaction test; the last few lines showing are: > > Transaction Test Succeeded > Running Transaction > Updating : db4 ##################### [1/6] > > Then nothing more. Has anyone else seen this? How do I > back out of this without hosing the system? When pad things like this happen it is sometimes only a post or pre install script that is hung. Go to another console and use ps -Af to try to identify what may have been spawned by the yum process via rpmlib. For example it might spawn something that somehow is hung waiting for userinput. If you identify such a thing, use the PID from ps to kill it and your yum may resume. -Andy
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