yum update hanging on db4-4.3.27-5.fc4.i386

[Timothy Murphy]

Andy Green wrote:

>> Anyone have an idea how to find out what it is "sleeping" on?
>> What's it waiting for?
> 
> lsof -n | grep yum
> 
> will show everything it is touching, maybe it can give a clue.

Completely OT, but this really amazed me
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[tim at martha ~]$ lsof -n | wc
   2503   22548  241073
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Can that really be true?
2500 open files?

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