On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 04:58:06PM +0200, you [Ville Herva] wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:43:56PM +0100, you [Ralf Ertzinger] wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > and look for duplicates, remove the older packages with:
> > > yum remove package-ver-rel.arch
> >
> > Whenever such things happen, I use this to find duplicates:
> >
> > rpm -aq --queryformat "%{NAME}\n" | sort | uniq -c | grep -v -E " *1 "
>
> Hmm, I found a few.
>
> Recently, "yum update" has often halted in the middle of updating, usually
> in the clean up phase. According to strace, it waits for a futex (sorry, I
> didn't save the strace log, will do if it happens again). I've had to kill
> -KILL it, HUP nor TERM are not enough. After this, it apparently leaves the
> other package version in place, for example:
FWIW, it hung again, this time "rpm -e", not yum.
--8<-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>strace -p 3717
Process 3717 attached - interrupt to quit
futex(0x808c938, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NULL <unfinished ...>
Process 3717 detached
>lsof -p 3717
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
rpm 3717 root cwd DIR 3,4 2864 2 /scratch
rpm 3717 root rtd DIR 3,2 4096 2 /
rpm 3717 root txt REG 3,2 81056 1261578 /bin/rpm
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 126612 1130601 /lib/ld-2.3.4.so
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 1465764 1196043 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 189312 1196044 /lib/tls/libm-2.3.4.so
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 16292 1133037 /lib/libdl-2.3.4.so
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 69012 218351 /usr/lib/libelf-0.101.so
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 107576 220160 /usr/lib/libneon.so.24.0.7
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 70540 214506 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.2.2
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 101952 1196045 /lib/tls/libpthread-2.3.4.so
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 317652 220095 /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0.8.6
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 125160 218470 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 288436 213949 /usr/lib/libbeecrypt.so.6.4.0
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 76336 1133039 /lib/libresolv-2.3.4.so
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 49344 1196037 /lib/tls/librt-2.3.4.so
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 60556 1133045 /lib/libselinux.so.1
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 7072 1133040 /lib/libcom_err.so.2.1
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 9576 214427 /usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0.0
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 140712 220166 /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3.0
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 427096 220168 /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3.2
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 88944 220170 /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 965996 1133041 /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7e
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 213544 1133042 /lib/libssl.so.0.9.7e
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 67628 218346 /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.2
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 450560 1081480 /var/lib/rpm/__db.003
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 1318912 1081370 /var/lib/rpm/__db.002
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 38628 1130610 /lib/libgcc_s-4.0.0-20050321.so.1
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 829532 219850 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.4
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 27300 213344 /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0.0.0
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 434472 220734 /usr/lib/librpmio-4.4.so
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 1017672 220727 /usr/lib/librpmdb-4.4.so
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 352672 220177 /usr/lib/librpm-4.4.so
rpm 3717 root mem REG 3,2 24576 1081369 /var/lib/rpm/__db.001
rpm 3717 root 0u CHR 136,1 3 /dev/pts/1
rpm 3717 root 1u CHR 136,1 3 /dev/pts/1
rpm 3717 root 2u CHR 136,1 3 /dev/pts/1
rpm 3717 root 3u REG 3,2 41730048 1082675 /var/lib/rpm/Packages
rpm 3717 root 4u REG 3,2 10416128 1082677 /var/lib/rpm/Basenames
rpm 3717 root 5u REG 3,2 45056 1082676 /var/lib/rpm/Name
rpm 3717 root 6u REG 3,2 12288 1082690 /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys
rpm 3717 root 7uW REG 3,2 0 1082155 /var/lib/rpm/__db.000
rpm 3717 root 8u REG 3,2 12288 1082688 /var/lib/rpm/Triggername
rpm 3717 root 9u CHR 136,1 3 /dev/pts/1
--8<-----------------------------------------------------------------------
After "kill -KILL 3717" and "rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*" rpm -e worked.
I've already done "rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*" quite a few times and "rpm
--rebuild db" a few times. The hang appears to happen pretty randomly. Any
ideas?
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