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Asked: 2010-12-14 23:08:06 +0800 CST

yum gets stuck at Running Transaction

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We have an RPM created from a TGZ which includes a set of files to be installed at /usr/glassfish. For some reason, yum gets stuck while Running Transaction (stuck for hours, doesn't continue...). Tried to attach a screenshot but serverfault won't let me.

Any idea why?

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3 Answers

  1. You could try to use strace to have a look at what yum is actually doing. Maybe it could also help to do a yum clean all, you might need to run yum-complete-transaction afterwards.

    Also just installing the RPM with rpm -Uvh your-rpm-file.rpm might give you more insight.

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  2. For anyone else who gets stuck with this issue - I came across this problem and it was because I killed yum, which in turn left a lock file for rpm in the open.

    In which case, you'll need to run rm /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock.

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  3. I had this issue too and it was caused by a broken NFS mount. After unmounting it with umount -l <mount_point> yum started to work again.

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