Paul wrote: > I have a weird thing happening with yum since yesterday, or possibly > since the last update, which iirc included yum-updatesd. > > When I do a "yum update", after I confirm that I want the updates to be > installed, yum goes to sleep in the background and does not perform the > updates. > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 1 0.0 0.0 10348 708 ? Ss Sep29 0:00 init [3] > . > . > . > postfix 17210 0.0 0.0 42508 2088 ? S 12:06 0:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u > root 17635 0.0 0.0 90120 3268 ? Ss 12:07 0:00 sshd: jpb [priv] > jpb 17644 0.0 0.0 90120 1772 ? S 12:07 0:00 sshd: jpb@pts/0 > jpb 17645 0.0 0.0 66100 1500 pts/0 Ss 12:07 0:00 -bash > root 17659 0.0 0.0 66100 1508 pts/0 S 12:07 0:00 -bash > root 18851 0.8 1.3 288320 54212 pts/0 S+ 12:43 0:02 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum update > postfix 20707 0.0 0.0 42512 2116 ? S 12:47 0:00 showq -t unix -u > root 21389 0.0 0.0 90120 3272 ? Ss 12:48 0:00 sshd: jpb [priv] > jpb 21412 0.0 0.0 90120 1764 ? S 12:48 0:00 sshd: jpb@pts/1 > jpb 21413 0.0 0.0 66100 1492 pts/1 Ss 12:48 0:00 -bash > root 21427 0.0 0.0 66100 1500 pts/1 S 12:48 0:00 -bash > root 21868 0.0 0.0 65628 980 pts/1 R+ 12:48 0:00 ps aux > postfix 30335 0.0 0.0 42504 2192 ? S Sep29 0:00 tlsmgr -l -t unix -u > > > I've never had this happen before, on any server, ever. > > What's going on here? How do I get it to just do the update and be done with? > I tried to update just the kernel (yum update kernel*), and after sitting for a long time it puked up this: Error Downloading Packages: kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.x86_64: failed to retrieve getPackage/kenel-2.6.18-164.2.2.el5.x86_64.rpm from rhel-x86_64-server-5 error was [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error > I've never had a problem with yum before, but yum itself was updated the last time I ran "yum updates". Could something have happened to it? Cheers, -- Paul Blonde EnTel Communications Inc Ph: 250-633-5151 TF: 866-633-2644 Fx: 250-633-2677 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
