Yum took looong time to install kernel

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, seth vidal wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 09:08 -0600, Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
>> Hi.  Yesterday I did a "yum update" and got the new kernel,
>> kernel.x86_64 0-2.6.25-1.fc9, among other packages.  The first time I
>> ran it, it seemed to hang at the kernel "Installing" step.  I killed
>> it after a few minutes and cleaned up the mess it caused (duplicate
>> packages that would have been removed later in the process).  Later, I
>> tried updating again with "-v -d 10", letting it go as long as needed.
>>  It finally finished:
>>
>> Running Transaction
>>   Installing: kernel                       ######################### [1/3]
>>   Cleanup   : kernel                       ######################### [2/3]
>>   Erasing   : kmod-nvidia-2.6.25-0.204.rc8 ######################### [3/3]
>> Running "posttrans" handler for "changelog" plugin
>> Running "posttrans" handler for "refresh-packagekit" plugin
>> Running "posttrans" handler for "merge-conf" plugin
>> Transaction time: 3168.841
>>
>> It froze at the 1/3 step again, but at least it eventually finished.
>> As you can see, that took a really long time, much longer than I've
>> ever seen yum take.  Does anyone know why?  Should I be concerned
>> about my system?  Was it just waiting for some resource to become
>> free?
>
> how many kernels do you have installed?
>
> rpm -q kernel
>
> nevertheless it is most likely the file fingerprint routine in rpm.

Fingerprinting happens when preparing for the transaction, not while 
installing. A "hang" during installation is most likely a scriptlet (%post 
or so) just taking forever to run.

 	- Panu -