I always get the same repeated message in yum.log when it tries to update glibc-common
Also whether you run yum install gcc or the install syntax you suggested, it always hangs in the
same place, i.e when updating glibc-common: Here is the repeated message verbatim form yum.log:
Gconf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need
to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session:
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the
message bus security blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Note: I've been googling for 3 days on this error message and have gotten no answers that solve the
problem. I downloaded the iso from SentOS. It automatically logs me in with the full GUI as
centoslive@livecd. By the way I havn't figured out how to login as root because it automatically logs me in with
(I guess) the username:livecd.
I'm wondering that this may be a problem and the configuration server doesn't know how to parse the machine
name@username properly.
So there it is.
P.S. I posted the same reply to Guru.