[olug] yum update issues

[Rob Townley]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Kevin D. Snodgrass
<kdsnodgrass at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Sun, 4/10/11, Noel Leistad <noel at metc.net> wrote:
>> for last week or 2, yum "hangs"
>> during "Running Transaction Test".
>>
>> have tried:
>>     yum clean all
>
> Try:
> # yum check
>
> see what it says.
>
> Also, try:
> # yum-complete-transaction
>
> Note, there is no space there...
> This will "fix" a transaction that was interrupted for some reason.
>
> Kevin D. Snodgrass
>
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Lately (last couple of months) on two Fedora 14 systems, i have had to
get out of Xwindows and run yum update from a tty console.  It was
either packagekit or /etc/init.d/yum-updatesd crashing or otherwise
not releasing a lock.