[CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

2009-01-12 Thread Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
It gets as far as telling me: Total download size: 207 M It doesn't ask if its ok. But if I type yenter it reports: Is this ok [y/N]: Downloading Packages: Then it does nothing. I can't kill it with CRTL-C, but I killed the yum process with kill -9 from another window. I retried it several

Re: [CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

2009-01-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 19:46 +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: It gets as far as telling me: Total download size: 207 M It doesn't ask if its ok. But if I type yenter it reports: Is this ok [y/N]: Downloading Packages: Then it does nothing. I can't kill it with CRTL-C, but I

Re: [CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

2009-01-12 Thread Pintér Tibor
It doesn't ask if its ok. But if I type yenter it reports: Is this ok [y/N]: Downloading Packages: Then it does nothing. I can't kill it with CRTL-C, but I killed the yum process with kill -9 from another window. I retried it several times; same result. tried deleting

Re: [CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

2009-01-12 Thread Spiro Harvey
tried deleting /var/lib/rpm/__* after killing all yum processes? Yum has command line options to do its housecleaning which I would try first. yum help clean What does deleting the __db files do that the yum clean all doesn't? (which I notice doesn't delete those specific files) -- Spiro

Re: [CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

2009-01-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-12-2009 12:24 PM Spiro Harvey spake the following: tried deleting /var/lib/rpm/__* after killing all yum processes? Yum has command line options to do its housecleaning which I would try first. yum help clean What does deleting the __db files do that the yum clean all doesn't?