On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:46:27PM +0200, you [Ville Herva] wrote: > > > > 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 > --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? This might just be related to the kernel problem described in thread starting from here: http://marc.free.net.ph/message/20050322.035910.7a290828.en.html -- v -- v@xxxxxx
