yum hangs on centos

http://www.graphics-muse.org/wp/?p=162

strace yum update

kill first

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/078865.html

kill -9

futex(0x2b1fa0c7a11c, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NULL

the solution is..

cd /var/lib/rpm
/usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_recover