Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote: > On Oct 6, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Paul wrote: > >> 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? > > Do you mean you run 'yum update', answer yes to the question and it > goes into the the background and releases the prompt for you? That's > weird. No, it goes to the background and doesn't release the prompt, and stays that way until the terminal session expires. If I open another terminal session, I can use ps to show me that yum is "sleeping". > > >>> >> 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? > > See if the following article solves it for you. > > http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-16881 I don't know if I am affected by these changes, I haven't upgraded to 5.4. I'll try disabling location aware updates. -- Paul -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
