yum stuck on “Parsing package install arguments”

 

Sometimes when you issue a yum install ‘package’ yum stalls on ‘Parsing package install arguments’ message without downloading any package or showing us anything.

To quickly fix this do the following:

First, type ctrl+c and quit the yum process

1. killall -9 yum
2. rm -Rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.*

At this point, retrying the hung yum command should succeed.
You will probably need to run ‘yum clean all’ after cleaning up the above mess before yum can make progress.

Tags: parsing package install arguments, yum not working, yum stalled, yum stuck