Yum install/update hangs at the very end, unable to kill via ctrl-c

Jonathan Prater

8/29/23, 5:37 PM

So I've got a group of servers (all RHEL 7.9) whose RPMDBs appear to have become corrupted. Not sure how or when, but no matter.

I fixed the DBs using these instructions. After that, any attempt to install/update/remove software using yum causes it to hang at the very end. I get the final line "Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager", and then it just sits. Ctrl-C won't break out of it, I have to either close my SSH session or wait for it to timeout, and then I can kill hung yum processes and delete lock files. Once I run yum-complete-transaction to clear anything left over, yum will allow me to do whatever, but it still hangs the same way at the end of any install/remove/update.

What I have done:

Checked for any hung/dormant NFS mounts
Rebuilt the DB again just in case something weird happened the first time through
Ran yum clean all
Tried installing/updating/removing via plain RPM, and that works, but has no impact on the problem with yum
Found a stack overflow page that suggested IPV6 was causing issues, so I disabled that by setting net.ipv6.conf.[nic].disable_ipv6 = 1

No impact from any of this. Anyone have any thoughts?

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I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Yum install/update hangs at the very end, unable to kill via ctrl-c

TH: การติดตั้ง / อัปเดตของ Yum แฮงค์ที่ส่วนท้ายสุดไม่สามารถฆ่าผ่าน ctrl-c

RO: Yum instalarea/actualizarea se blochează la sfârșit, nu se poate ucide prin ctrl-c

RU: Установка/обновление Yum зависает в самом конце, невозможно убить через ctrl-c

VI: Cài đặt/cập nhật Yum bị treo ở cuối, không thể hủy thông qua ctrl-c

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