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yum stuck forever

When i run any yum command on a server it get stuck for ever. I run yum with strace It get stuck with following message from strace Got it fixed by deleting the lock files. See yum


Python Script to update yum

Some times when you update server software with yum, it fail to update due to few package conflicts. This will result in none of the packages getting updated. When i update a cpanel server, i get following error I normally


Yum Error Fatal error, run database recovery

When i run yum update on a server, i get error To fix this, you need to delete yum db files (__db.001, __db.002 and __db.003) from /var/lib/rpm folder. Run yum clean and update. Now yum will work.


Missing Dependency: libjpeg.so.62 is needed by package xulrunner-1.9.2.22-1.el5_7.i386 (updates)

On a cpanel sever, when running yum update, i get following error xulrunner-1.9.2.22-1.el5_7.i386 from updates has depsolving problems –> Missing Dependency: libjpeg.so.62 is needed by package xulrunner-1.9.2.22-1.el5_7.i386 (updates) ghostscript-8.70-6.el5_7.3.i386 from updates has depsolving problems –> Missing Dependency: libjpeg.so.62 is needed