On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:36 AM, seth vidal <skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 09:08 -0600, Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
> Hi. Yesterday I did a "yum update" and got the new kernel,
> kernel.x86_64 0-2.6.25-1.fc9, among other packages. The first time I
> ran it, it seemed to hang at the kernel "Installing" step. I killed
> it after a few minutes and cleaned up the mess it caused (duplicate
> packages that would have been removed later in the process). Later, I
> tried updating again with "-v -d 10", letting it go as long as needed.
> It finally finished:
>
> Running Transaction
> Installing: kernel ######################### [1/3]
> Cleanup : kernel ######################### [2/3]
> Erasing : kmod-nvidia-2.6.25-0.204.rc8 ######################### [3/3]
> Running "posttrans" handler for "changelog" plugin
> Running "posttrans" handler for "refresh-packagekit" plugin
> Running "posttrans" handler for "merge-conf" plugin
> Transaction time: 3168.841
>
> It froze at the 1/3 step again, but at least it eventually finished.
> As you can see, that took a really long time, much longer than I've
> ever seen yum take. Does anyone know why? Should I be concerned
> about my system? Was it just waiting for some resource to become
> free?
how many kernels do you have installed?
rpm -q kernel
nevertheless it is most likely the file fingerprint routine in rpm.
# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.25-0.218.rc8.git7.fc9.x86_64
kernel-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.x86_64
kernel-2.6.25-1.fc9.x86_64
So not an inordinate number.... I've never seen one take that long,
but if you think it's reasonable, then I'm happy with that. Thanks.
reid