recent rh9 updates broke rpm?
Damian Menscher
menscher at uiuc.edu
Wed Mar 9 20:52:10 UTC 2005
Looking to see if anyone else had this problem this week:
Setup: I have eight identical machines running RH9 using yum in a
nightly cronjob to install the legacy updates. This has all worked
perfectly for the past year or so (except for occasional hiccups due to
bad downloads, etc). Recently there was a kernel update, and I rebooted
all 8 machines on Feb 27 at 15:04. Yum continued to run nightly since
then, and has installed the cups updates of March 2/3 on all machines
without incident (some got it Mar 2, some Mar 3 due to network
flakiness). Therefore I doubt that the reboot is directly related.
Two nights ago, I got email reports from 4 of the 8 machines indicating
that yum had segfaulted. I guessed it was a network glitch, but last
night I got two more segfaults, and two machines with a hung yum process
(waiting for a futex() to unlock).
Questions: Why did this affect only half of my machines? How could the
RPM databases have been broken? The update that seems to be killing
them is less-378-7.2.legacy, which has managed to get installed even on
two of the broken machines.
Finally, I know the standard thing-to-do is rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* and
install a more recent version of rpm. But I've already got rpm-4.2-1 on
these machines, so those locking issues shouldn't be causing a problem.
Besides, the reboot would have done that rm -f as part of rc.sysinit.
Anyone else have this problem with this week's updates? It'd be nice to
know that it's not just me.... Other suggestions also welcome.
Damian Menscher
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