Oops, sorry to steal this thread. I'll get my own next time.
Joshua
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 09:29:52AM -0400, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> We've got a machine that is running yum from cron, and currently has
> something like 12 instances of yum running. It looks like an rpm lock
> issues for a new yum process I start:
>
> stat64("/var/lib/rpm/__db.001", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=16384, ...}) = 0
> open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.001", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
> fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=16384, ...}) = 0
> close(3) = 0
> open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.001", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
> fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0xb73b2000
> close(3) = 0
> futex(0xb73b2000, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> --- SIGINT (Interrupt) @ 0 (0) ---
> rt_sigreturn(0xb73b2000) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> futex(0xb73b2000, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> --- SIGINT (Interrupt) @ 0 (0) ---
> rt_sigreturn(0xb73b2000) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> futex(0xb73b2000, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> --- SIGINT (Interrupt) @ 0 (0) ---
> rt_sigreturn(0xb73b2000) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> ....etc....
>
>
> Isn't yum's own /var/run/yum.pid lockfile supposed to keep yum from
> running but once? If so, shouldn't yum check this file *first* before
> trying for a lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 ?? This is disturbing.
>
>
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