On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:03:20PM -0800, DJA wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum provides /usr/bin/g++
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Searching Packages:
> Setting up repositories
>
> [yadda, yadda, yadda]
>
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
>
> gcc-c++.i386                             4.1.0-3                core
> Matched from:
> /usr/bin/g++
>
> gcc-c++.i386                             4.1.1-51.fc5           updates
> Matched from:
> /usr/bin/g++
>
> Although neither form of the command seems to finish - i.e. it hangs
> until a <^c> exit.

Oh, it's not hanging.  It's diligently searching through... something.
I don't really know what, exactly.  An lsof could probably shed some
light on it.

My CentOS 4 box displayed similar behavior.  Annoyingly, a C-C doesn't
kill whatever sub-process yum launched, so I was getting results
intermittently spit onto my IRC session for a few hours before I finally
killed the errant process with extreme predjudice.

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