On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:58 -0800, Nickolai Zeldovich wrote: > I have been running into lots of problems with yum-updatesd ever since > installing Fedora Core 6, and this is apparently a fairly common > issue: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212507 > > After running "yum-updatesd -f" (v3.0.3), I found a number of places > where exceptions were thrown and yum locks not released (see attached > log files). I don't understand the details of yum enough to figure > out why it's throwing these exceptions all over the place (the "Index > out of range" sounds like something else is definitely wrong), but the > attached patch at least catches and tries to log or handle them. > > Empirically, yum-updatesd now no longer seems to hold the yum lock forever. > Nickolai, Thanks for the patch. The only thing I worry about is the more-or-less global exception catch in your try, except clauses. Is it possible to narrow the set of possible exceptions down there so we don't end up catching the world? -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
