Try a : rm -rf /var/cache/yum/i686/6/*
That may be the same as yum clean all, but I'd try it anways. Can you connect to any of the http repos using a web browser from this host (or command line utilities wget/curl/elinks/links/lynx if any of these are installed?) to see if it can connect? On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/23/2013 03:34 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote: > >> Do you see it saying that it's trying to connect to one of the mirrors >> and it's getting stuck there or does it get past that part? I don't >> think you were coincidentally able to hit ctrl+c while it was trying to >> connect to one of the centos mirrors, I think it really is getting stuck >> there, i.e. if you run the strace -ff command without sending it to the >> log file does the strace -ff seem to hang or does some output >> continuously keep looping? What does it hang on or what system call does >> it keep looping on? You may also just try running strace without -ff so >> it doesn't trace into other threads. Did yum clean all finish properly? >> >> >> > Before I go further, many MANY thanks for taking time to look at this with > me. > > Yes, I did see that it froze trying to connect to a repo (and this seems a > moving target). I checked /etc/resolv.conf - nameserver is set correctly. > > Please know that Ctrl+c does not interrupt the process. I have to kill it > from another terminal. > > Yes, yum clean all does run. I have removed all of the non centos base > /etc/yum.repo.d files. Running yum-config-manager -v --disable shows only > the core repos present. > > At this point, a simple yum repolist causes the same loop behavior. > > > Howard > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
