Hanging Shell
 

When connecting to my linux server the shell keeps hanging.
If I try and vi a file then it just hangs and doesnt even opens the file. When I just reinstalled vi the shell hung 75% through the yum install.

Has anyone any ideas what this could be causing this ?

Could be memory, disks, space, cpu or libraries.

Check the easy one - libraries. Hit Ctrl_Alt_F2 if you are in X and log in. start with ldd
ldd /usr/bin/xterm |grep found

anything shown is missing. as for vi, run
yum list vi

rpm -e --force --nodeps (= --middle-finger) vi*.rpm
rpm --rebuilddb (?sp)

then install it.