Rebuild yum/rpm database
When I was trying to update packages on one host I’ve stuck with yum hung on update. I run strace and see: strace -p 43734 Process 43734 attached - interrupt to quit futex(0x807c938, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NULL <unfinished ...> Process 43734 detached It looks like yum database was corrupted, to repair this run: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb yum clean all yum update Instead rm on db-files you could use gzip to have backup of these files. ...