yum upgrade hangs

[Eric Dunbar]

Spundun,

Unless you're particularly wedded to your current install I would
suggest you bite the bullet and start fresh with 4.0. Upgrading to 4.0
from 3.0.1 was less than a satisfactory experience for me. It worked,
but it didn't work well. X/GNOME/KDE were fairly broken as was the GUI
updater mechanism.

Back up all your /home files, and any configuration files that you
modified and then start fresh. I ran my 3.0.1 system as an Apache web
server, Samba and AppleTalk file server and I must say the transition
*wasn't* worth it from the POV of the time I put into it vs. getting a
stable system out of it. I didn't gain any additional functionality or
stability (that _I_ use) through the upgrade. Although, from a
learning POV it was b/c I had to learn some more trouble shooting
tricks to get the servers up and running.

Eric.

On 7/11/05, Spundun Bhatt <spundun at isi.edu> wrote:
> (trying again, sorry for the duplicates)
> Hi all...
> 
> I am not subscribed to the mailing list, so please keep my email in your
> replies.
> 
> I am trying to upgrade yum from 3.0 to 4.0 using the instructions on
> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2005-January/017602.html
> .
> 
> But in the step where I am supposed to run yum upgrade, yum hangs on
> resolving dependencies. If I check the files opened by yum then it keeps
> opening the package header files at the rate of about 1 every second...
> it kept running for 24hours twice without finishing...some files are
> opened more often than the others.
> 
> Btw earlier I couldnt run yum clean all.. it would always give errors...
> 
> Can anyone help me fix this error?
> 
> Thanks
> Spundun