Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo? OMG OMFG OMFFG!!!

2009-09-12 Thread Dave Stevens
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 01:02:53 pm Dave Stevens wrote: Hello All, As you can see below I am having a problem checking for updates. This happens repeatedly. I have to kill the process then rerun. I have tried yum clean all but no joy - the process hangs again on extras - see second

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-12 Thread Dave Stevens
On Friday 11 September 2009 10:47:31 am Jim Perrin wrote: yum -d6 check-update Like this: [r...@cserver ~]# yum -d6 check-update Loading fastestmirror plugin Loading priorities plugin Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Running config handler for priorities plugin Config time: 0.449

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-12 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 04:03:40PM -0700, Dave Stevens wrote: rpmdb time: 0.001 Building updates object hangs here I've seen similar when the rpm sqlite databases are wedged. You might want to try rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00? to remove the intermediate files, and

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-11 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 09:01 -0600, drew einhorn wrote: This is related to the problem at hand how? The OP has a problem resulting from mixing standard and 3rd party repos, and has noticed some obvious issues. No, he doesn't. His yum hangs. Rather than trying to figure out what you

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-11 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:01 AM, drew einhorn drew.einh...@gmail.com wrote: Rather than trying to figure out what you have and how to fix it, it may be easier to start over an build a new system from scratch. So? Yum is simply hanging for him, not failing with python errors or incompatible

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-11 Thread drew einhorn
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 09:01 -0600, drew einhorn wrote: This is related to the problem at hand how? The OP has a problem resulting from mixing standard and 3rd party repos, and has noticed some obvious

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-11 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:23 AM, drew einhorn drew.einh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 09:01 -0600, drew einhorn wrote: This is related to the problem at hand how? The OP has a problem resulting

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-11 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:23 AM, drew einhorn drew.einh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 09:01 -0600, drew einhorn wrote: This is related to the problem at hand how? The OP has a problem resulting

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-11 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: Hello All, As you can see below I am having a problem checking for updates. This happens repeatedly. I have to kill the process then rerun. I have tried yum clean all but no joy - the process hangs again on extras - see

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-10 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 15:09 -0600, drew einhorn wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Akemi Yagiamy...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Dave Stevensg...@uniserve.com wrote: As you can see below I am having a problem checking for updates. This happens repeatedly. I have to

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-10 Thread drew einhorn
I should probably rewrite the following, moving some paragraphs around. But I'm done for now. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 15:09 -0600, drew einhorn wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Akemi Yagiamy...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-10 Thread Rex Dieter
drew einhorn wrote: epel is not concerned about their compatability with other 3rd party repos. Please, stop the FUD. And there is a lot of lingering animosity. Just mentioning epel in some places is enough to evoke a bitter response. and thank you so much for perpetuating the problem.

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-10 Thread Les Mikesell
drew einhorn wrote: We really need better repository tools, when dealing with multiple 3rd party repos. It is not easy to see which packages came from which repos, much less understand compatibility issues among packages from different 3rd party repos. We would be in a better place if

[CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-09 Thread Dave Stevens
Hello All, As you can see below I am having a problem checking for updates. This happens repeatedly. I have to kill the process then rerun. I have tried yum clean all but no joy - the process hangs again on extras - see second listing below. Suggestions? Dave [r...@cserver ~]# yum

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-09 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Dave Stevensg...@uniserve.com wrote: Hello All, As you can see below I am having a problem checking for updates. This happens repeatedly. I have to kill the process then rerun. I have tried yum clean all but no joy - the process hangs again on extras - see

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-09 Thread drew einhorn
Y9ou On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Akemi Yagiamy...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Dave Stevensg...@uniserve.com wrote: Hello All, As you can see below I am having a problem checking for updates. This happens repeatedly. I have to kill the process then rerun. I have