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Yum stalling

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It appears that the RPM database needs rebuilding if a yum process is killed prematurely, since it probably had the RPM db open and now it's in an inconsistent state.

The steps :

  • Kill all yum and rpm processes.
  • rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
  • rpm --rebuilddb (add -vv if you want to see what it's doing)
  • Retry yum update.
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