Updating..

[teishu]

Hi, I can't update using the PUP.... Gets to about 70% of finding updates... and crashes :S any ideas ?

[Wayne]

Hi, I can't update using the PUP.... Gets to about 70% of finding updates... and crashes :S any ideas ?

Do it from a Terminal logged in as root:

su -

give password, then:

yum update

Wayne

[teishu]

When i type yum, or yum update this is what i get:

[root@localhost ~]# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin

and it stays there no CPU activity or network activity.... Has it stopped ?

[gotencool]

Try cleaning yum's cache: yum clean all
Then, yum list updates. This may list availables updates.
Then, yum update (if updates list is too long, this will be slow)

[sideways]

You may need to reset the rpm database also, to do this type (as root)


rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
rpm --rebuilddb

This will take a couple of minutes, then do a 'yum clean all' and try the updates again

[teishu]

It wont let me run, Yum clean all...

[root@localhost ~]# yum clean all
Loading "installonlyn" plugin

stays at that still...

[sideways]

did you rebuild the database first? Are you logged in as root?

[teishu]

did you rebuild the database first? Are you logged in as root?

ah.. i'll do that then report back..

[teishu]

ok, so rebuilt the databse and did yum clean all. now when i run yum update, it sticks at Setting up repositories

any thoughts ?

[teishu]

ah... think its sorted now.. thanks