yum on Centos stuck at "loaded plugins: fastestmirror" [closed]

Question

When trying to install a package using yum on Centos, the command is getting stuck at the first part:

loaded plugins: fastestmirror

I've tried:

1. removing /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt See suggestion
2. yum update yum
3. making sure there are no other processes running and removing /var/run/yum.pid
4. yum clean all See suggestion
5. Checked that DNS works for all the servers in the /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files
6. Set the enabled flag in vi /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf // enabled=0 See Suggestion

... still having the problem.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

For me what ended up fixing it was this:

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*
rpm --rebuilddb -v -v

Then rerunning yum command I was trying to run in the first place.

It got stuck for about a minute on:

Determining fastest mirrors

...but then it completed without errors

Suggested Here

Answer 2

Worked for me : (+)

Edit the following file.

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf

Change enabled=1 to enabled=0 to disable the fastestmorror plugin.

That should fix it.

You don't need to restart anything for that change to take effect. Just run yum again.