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yum hangs and won't respond

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 2026137216 views
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I am running and it freezes after a 2 lines of output: I'm not sure what is happening. The last things I remember doing with yum were and looking at one of the CentOS yum repos but I didn't make any changes. Any suggestions to fix yum?

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All of this did not work with me. Using CentOS and yum. yum hangs without an error message, at least, so it appears. Pressing Ctrl+C does not work (pressing it again and again and again does). Several things need to be checked: - are the repositorie…

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