Why do rpm, yum, or rhn_register commands hang?
Issue
- Why does the yum or rhn_register command hang?
- "yum update" hangs at message "Setting up Update Process" .
- rpm hangs, and running an strace against this will list a wait on futex syscall
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Network
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