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How To Fix Yum When It Hangs With No Error Message

Yum on one of my centos boxes simply would not work.  Once you entered a yum command such as;

yum clean all

yum upgrade

it hung and would not work.

Apparently I needed to remove the __db.* in /var/lib/rpm

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

See this link for more info - http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2007/01/04/dealing-with-yum-hangs-on-fc6/

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