I've seen df hang on a malfunctioning nfs mount. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Margaret Doll > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 02:30 > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: yum and "rpm -U" not working > > > On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:03 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >> > >> On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:01 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> > >>> Margaret wrote: > >>>>> From: Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll@xxxxxxxxx> > >>>>> Date: January 21, 2010 10:25:47 AM EST > >>>>> > >>>>> We are running 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5xen on our server. > >>>>> > >>>>> Recently "yum update", "yum localinstall TIV*.rpm --nogpgcheck", > >>>>> and versions of "rpm -U xterm" hang. yum hangs up on the > >>>>> transition > >>>>> check after all the packages have been downloaded. "rpm -U" > tells > >>>>> me which dependencies that I need, but hangs if I include the > >>>>> dependencies in the list of programs to upgrade. > >>>>> > >>>>> "rpm --rebuildbd" seems to work. > >>>>> > >>>>> How do I start debugging this problem? > >>> > >>> Is there any clue in /var/log/yum.log? > > <snip> > >> The kernel on which the system is running is xen, but the problem > >> with > >> rpm and yum still exists. > > > > Ok, so is there anything in the yum.log, from when it failed? Have > you > > tried rpm -Uvh xterm, to see if it said anything? Oh - and try rpm - > > Uvvh - > > I thought I remembered this, and yep, the man page sayeth "Print > > lots of > > ugly debugging information". > > > > Let us know what happens if you try that. > > > > mark > > Thanks, Mark and Gabi, > > rpm -Uvvh xterm*rpm > > ends with > > D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42 > D: mounted filesystems: > D: i dev bsize bavail iavail mount point > > We are also having problems with df working completely. df also hangs > after reporting most of the volumes that are mounted. We thought the > problems were unrelated. Perhaps a reboot will help. > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
