On 28/07/06, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
wrote:> I just build a new server and once I was able to log on, I did a yum -y
> update
>
> The download (~100Mb) and updates all completed.
>
> It is now in the cleanup and hung on 56/77 it has been on that entry for
> a couple hours.
>
> How do I recover from this?
>
> close terminal window, open new and then: yum clean ???
>
> Should I reboot prior to the clean?
Check the list archives for :
"futex.. How to remove lots of duplicate packages"
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-March/thread.html#62319
"yum update killed on cleanup stage - anything to worry about?"
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-March/thread.html#62568
It sounds like you're suffering from this futex error, I don't know if
strace-ing the yum process will confirm this but you can give it a
try. You'll probably have to kill the process then check for duplicate
packages as covered in those threads.
Will.