FC4: yum is sleeping indefinitely

[Juan Carlos Castro y Castro]

More info: the hung program has these sockets open. Is there anyway I 
can forcibly close them?

[root at mymachine01 ~]# netstat --inet -p
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign 
Address             State       PID/Program name
tcp        1      0 mymachine01:50497           
www.redhat.com:http         CLOSE_WAIT  2348/python
tcp        1      0 mymachine01:50495           
www.redhat.com:http         CLOSE_WAIT  2348/python
tcp        1      0 mymachine01:50493           
www.redhat.com:http         CLOSE_WAIT  2348/python
tcp        1      0 mymachine01:53129           
gd.tuwien.ac.at:http        CLOSE_WAIT  2348/python


Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:

> I am in the process of upgrading an FC4 machine. It was an "install 
> everything", so there was 600+ packages to be updated.
>
> Before doing a full yum update, I updated yum itself, the kernel, and 
> rebooted. That was yesterday.
>
> Since I had to leave the machine unattended at out hosting company, I 
> did the following and went away:
>
> nohup yum -y update &
>
> Hours later, I see the following output file (it seems yum output less 
> than it should into stdout)...
>
> vte                     i386       0.11.14-3.fc4    updates-released  
> 460 k
> vte-devel               i386       0.11.14-3.fc4    updates-released  
> 290 k
> w3c-libwww              i386       5.4.0-13.0.FC4.1  updates-released  
> 423 k
> w3c-libwww-apps         i386       5.4.0-13.0.FC4.1  
> updates-released   30 k
> w3c-libwww-devel        i386       5.4.0-13.0.FC4.1  updates-released  
> 615 k
> wget                    i386       1.10.2-0.fc4     updates-released  
> 572 k
> wireless-tools          i386       1:28-0.pre10.4   updates-released  
> 103 k
> x86info                 i386       1:1.17-1.13      updates-released   
> 30 k
> xdelta                  i386       1.1.3-17.fc4     updates-released  
> 103 k
> xdelta-devel            i386       1.1.3-17.fc4     updates-released   
> 98 k
> xen                     i386       2-20050823       updates-released  
> 1.9 M
> xinitrc                 noarch     4.0.18.1-1       updates-released   
> 28 k
> xorg-x11                i386       6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2  
> updates-released   14 M
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL     i386       6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2  
> updates-released  207 k
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU    i386       6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2  
> updates-released  278 k
> xorg-x11-Xdmx           i386       6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2  
> updates-released  1.0 M
> xorg-x11-Xnest  Stopping sshd: [  OK  ]
> Starting sshd: [  OK  ]
> warning: /etc/sane.d/dll.conf created as /etc/sane.d/dll.conf.rpmnew
> warning: /etc/rndc.key created as /etc/rndc.key.rpmnew
> warning: /etc/named.conf saved as /etc/named.conf.rpmsave
> warning: /var/named/localdomain.zone saved as 
> /var/named/localdomain.zone.rpmsave
> warning: /var/named/localhost.zone saved as 
> /var/named/localhost.zone.rpmsave
> warning: /var/named/named.broadcast saved as 
> /var/named/named.broadcast.rpmsave
> warning: /var/named/named.ca saved as /var/named/named.ca.rpmsave
> warning: /var/named/named.ip6.local saved as 
> /var/named/named.ip6.local.rpmsave
> warning: /var/named/named.local saved as /var/named/named.local.rpmsave
> warning: /var/named/named.zero saved as /var/named/named.zero.rpmsave
> warning: /etc/ssh/sshd_config created as /etc/ssh/sshd_config.rpmnew
> warning: /etc/vimrc created as /etc/vimrc.rpmnew
>
> ...and the yum proces is sleeping, wasting no CPU, and it seemingly is 
> never going to finish. If I do a rpm -qa, it shows both versions of 
> the updated packages, old and new. Pstree shows there's no processes 
> spawned by the yum process.
>
> Am I utterly and completely screwed? Should I abort yum and do it 
> again? Do I have to make some kind of rebuild?
>