On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 08:27 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> having the problem that yum very often hangs up when installing some
> packages. Then stopping it and 
> killing it with signal 9, re-starting it with "clean all" and then
> starting again "yum install ..." 
> untils it performs the download and install. Sometimes I have to
> repeat this tiring procedure 3 or 
> 4 times. Sometimes a reboot is needed.

Sometimes yum may take a considerable time to time-out when it
encounters a busy server, but have not seen it totally hang, at least
not since much earlier (Fedora) versions.  Be sure you are waiting long
enough.  Have never had a yum hang requiring a reboot.

> Calling yum in ssh session (for managing more than one nodes) shows
> similar problems - it seems 
> that yum needs a tty, otherwise it will not operate. Can somebody
> confirm this?

I regularly use yum in interactive ssh sessions, and have run it in cron
jobs, so it definitely does not require a TTY.  If you are trying to run
it as a command argument to the the ssh invocation, rather than in an
interactive session, appropriate switches (-y at least) and I/O
redirection are required.

> Did somebody make similar experiences?

Not I.

> All comments are welcome.

Phil


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