plague: Job waited too long for repo to unlock. Killing it...

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:14:36 +0200, Jonathan Dieter wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 17:54 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > If in a failed job.log you see the message
> > 
> >     Job waited too long for repo to unlock. Killing it...
> > 
> > please notify me.
> > 
> 
> I ran into this with deltarpm for EL-5, job 37699.

Yes, that's what the DoS symptoms look like: a short job.log and no other
results. Every job after 37683 did not even start, waiting forever for a
thread lock to be unlocked.