Description of problem: Yum hangs and won't respond to a sigint. sigterm must be used to kill process. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.06-1.noarch How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum check-update (or whatever) Actual results: yum stops after listing repositories Expected results: yum would do what it is suppose to do or time out if repositories not responding Additional info:
your rpmdb is stuck. kill off any yum or rpm or up2date processes cd /var/lib/rpm rm -f __db* rerun yum see if it works properly.
Yes that fixed the problem.