Bug 731650

Summary: Yum update issue with RHEL upgrade from 5.2 to 5.6
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: vinayagam.sivan
Component: yumAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version: 5.2CC: zpavlas
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Description vinayagam.sivan 2011-08-18 08:43:17 UTC 
Description of problem:
Trying to update Redhat 5.2 to 5.6 through yum upate command through satelite server. We were able to modify the channle subscription on the satelite server and able to run yum check-update command. while we run "yum update" its hangs at Running Transaction check

# yum update
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping security plugin, no data
--> Running transaction check
---> Package stunnel.i386 0:4.15-2.el5.1 set to be updated -----> It hangs at here and there is no further progress


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga)

How reproducible:
by running again yum update command

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum update
2.
3.
  
Actual results:

# yum update
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping security plugin, no data
--> Running transaction check
---> Package stunnel.i386 0:4.15-2.el5.1 set to be updated


Expected results:

expecting to install all the packages from satelite server

Additional info:
Comment 1 Zdeněk Pavlas 2013-03-22 15:01:35 UTC 
If you can reproduce this, please run the update with -d9 and attach the full Yum output..  Is there some disk or network activity going on?  Ideally, attach also a strace log.