Centos – Yum freezes on Running Transaction Check

centoscentos5kernelyum

Strace: http://pastebin.com/r8D39yLg Kernel:

2.6.18-274.12.1.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 18:16:47 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64

GNU/Linux System: CentOS 5.7 64-bit

How to fix this ?

Best Answer

this problem is usually due to a stale nfs mount, or some other blocking IO.

kill the yum process with a "kill -9", resolve the filesystem issue, and try the yum command again.

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