Mail List wrote: > > > On Tuesday 27 November 2007 01:04:31 am Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> My "usual suspects" would be >> * rpmdb corruption (I once had a case something related to rpm hung each >> night at 4am) >> * networking issues (updatedb trying to recurse into stale nfs-mounted >> file systems). >> * yum-updatesd. >> * some cron-job related job running out of diskspace. >> >> Ralf > > Yeh i looked at cron - the cron.log used to show cron.hourly's running .. > the stop at 5 am. Guess its frozen. On older logs (last week) cron.hours logs > as running at 6am, 7 am etc. > > Ok so whats in /etc/cron.hourly. > Nothing. There are none. > > Wonder what changed in the last couple of weeks to make this suddenly > misbehave. I kiled yum-updatesd - its never worked anyway - yum-cron and > running by hand never fail. Maybe that will help. I can run a rpm --rebuilddb > as well for good measure. Why not try to figure out what is wrong before trying to fix it?
