CentOS - Dec 2007 - yum freezing when removing old kernel

Hello,
    Today i ran a yum update and installed kernel 2.6.18.53.1 from 
centosplus. I then rebooted to ensure i was running it. I was and went to 
remove the previous kernel and kernel-devel packages v2.6.18.53 also from 
centosplus. In both cases yum gets to the running transaction check then 
hangs, i don't get any errors it just sits there. I have to manually kill 
the yum process to resolve this. This does not happen with any other package 
add/removals. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Dave.

Hi Dave,

I am experiencing the same problem on two of my systems running CentOS 5. I 
get an error message after a long timeout, "could not retrieve
mirrorlist".
Please let me know if you find a way around this problem.

Thanks,
David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com>
To: <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:24 PM
Subject: [CentOS] yum freezing when removing old kernel

> Hello,
>    Today i ran a yum update and installed kernel 2.6.18.53.1 from 
> centosplus. I then rebooted to ensure i was running it. I was and went to 
> remove the previous kernel and kernel-devel packages v2.6.18.53 also from 
> centosplus. In both cases yum gets to the running transaction check then 
> hangs, i don't get any errors it just sits there. I have to manually
kill
> the yum process to resolve this. This does not happen with any other 
> package add/removals. Any suggestions?
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
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