F11 yum: "Running Transaction test" for over an hour ??

[sean darcy]

Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, sean darcy wrote:
> 
>> Running yum upgrade on F11, yum dl's a modest amount of stuff - mesa, 
>> firefox,etc. But now it's been running transaction test for over an 
>> hour on two different machines! Even for really big upgrades this 
>> never has taken more than a few minutes.
>>
>> Any clues?
> 
> strace the process. Look for a FUTEX_WAIT.
> 
> -sv
> 

Didn't find a FUTEX_WAIT.

Tried again after yum clean all, same result.

Thanks for any help

sean

strace yum -y  update yum-presto
.......................
pread(9, 
"\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\177\v\0\0\0\0\0\0~\v\0\0\1\0\346\17\0\7\0\0\0C\0\0\34"..., 
4096, 12054528) = 4096
pread(9, 
"\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0~\v\0\0\177\v\0\0}\v\0\0\1\0\346\17\0\7eter at gm"..., 
4096, 12050432) = 4096
pread(9, 
"\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0}\v\0\0~\v\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0<\1\0\7B\32+\352M\334\241"..., 
4096, 12046336) = 4096
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[RTMIN RT_1], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
fcntl(5, F_SETLK, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1073741824, 
len=1}) = 0
fcntl(5, F_SETLK, {type=F_RDLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1073741826, 
len=510}) = 0
fcntl(5, F_SETLK, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1073741824, 
len=1}) = 0
access("/var/cache/yum/fedora/6a8bfab8ebcbc79f9827f5b16bc1bd1573c068f141bf47c6f216e72dd8b60ff0-primary.sqlite-journal", 
F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=48559104, ...}) = 0
lseek(5, 0, SEEK_SET)                   = 0
read(5, "SQLite format 3\0\4\0\1\1\0@  \0\0\0\23\0\0\0\0\0"..., 1024) = 1024
lseek(5, 6144, SEEK_SET)                = 6144
read(5, 
"\r\0\0\0\4\0\207\0\0\207\0\332\3\2\3X\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
1024) = 1024
lseek(5, 7168, SEEK_SET)                = 7168
read(5, 
"\r\0\0\0\4\0\367\0\0\367\1\204\2\24\2\244\0\252\0`\0\35\0\0\0\0\0\0\0A\v\6\27"..., 
1024) = 1024
lseek(5, 33193984, SEEK_SET)            = 33193984
.........................
........................
read(5, 
"\r\0\0\0\2\0i\0\1\373\0i\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
1024) = 1024
lseek(5, 28903424, SEEK_SET)            = 28903424
read(5, 
"\5\0\0\0o\1f\0\0\0n\325\1f\1l\1r\1x\1~\1\204\1\212\1\220\1\226\1\234\1"..., 
1024) = 1024
lseek(5, 28775424, SEEK_SET)            = 28775424
read(5, 
"\r\0\0\0\1\2(\0\2(\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
1024) = 1024
lseek(5, 28776448, SEEK_SET)            = 28776448
read(5, 
"\r\0\0\0\1\1\206\0\1\206\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
1024) = 1024
lseek(5, 28778496, SEEK_SET)            = 28778496
read(5, 
"\r\0\0\0\1\2L\0\2L\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
1024) = 1024
lseek(5, 28779520, SEEK_SET)            = 28779520
read(5, 
"\r\0\0\0\1\0\322\0\0\322\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 
1024) = 1024
lseek(5, 28781568, SEEK_SET0\0\0\0\0"..., 1024) = 1024
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