yum update hanging on db4-4.3.27-5.fc4.i386 -- solved

[John DeDourek]

John DeDourek wrote:

> 
> 
> Andy Green wrote:
> 
>> John DeDourek wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Anyone have an idea how to find out what it is "sleeping" on?
>>> What's it waiting for?
>>
>>
>>
>> lsof -n | grep yum
>>
>> will show everything it is touching, maybe it can give a clue.
>>
>> Here is the list of files in my db4
>>
>> # rpm -q --list db4
>> /lib64/libdb-4.3.so
>> /lib64/tls/libdb-4.3.so
>> /usr/lib64/libdb-4.3.so
>> /usr/lib64/libdb_cxx-4.3.so
>> /usr/lib64/tls/libdb-4.3.so
>> /usr/lib64/tls/libdb_cxx-4.3.so
>> /usr/share/doc/db4-4.3.27
>> /usr/share/doc/db4-4.3.27/LICENSE
>> /usr/share/doc/db4-4.3.27/README
>> /lib/libdb-4.3.so
>> /lib/tls/i486/libdb-4.3.so
>> /lib/tls/i586/libdb-4.3.so
>> /lib/tls/i686/libdb-4.3.so
>> /usr/lib/libdb-4.3.so
>> /usr/lib/libdb_cxx-4.3.so
>> /usr/lib/tls/i486/libdb-4.3.so
>> /usr/lib/tls/i486/libdb_cxx-4.3.so
>> /usr/lib/tls/i586/libdb-4.3.so
>> /usr/lib/tls/i586/libdb_cxx-4.3.so
>> /usr/lib/tls/i686/libdb-4.3.so
>> /usr/lib/tls/i686/libdb_cxx-4.3.so
>> /usr/share/doc/db4-4.3.27
>> /usr/share/doc/db4-4.3.27/LICENSE
>> /usr/share/doc/db4-4.3.27/README
>>
>> use
>>
>> ll -c
>>
>> on that list to check the last modification times... not today on any
>> --> kill yum and don't worry :-)
>>
>> -Andy
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Current status:
> 
> rebooted to runlevel 2
> 
> yum update attempting to update db4, db4-devel, db4-utils, still hangs in
> a sleep.
> 
> rpm -V db4
> shows only changes to configuration files
> 
> rpm -V db4-devel
> shows no problems
> 
> rpm -V db4-utils
> gives a list of error messages of the form
> "prelink: some-file-name: at least one of file's dependencies has 
> changed since
>    prelinking
> 
> where the file names are:
> /usr/bin/berkeley_db_svc
> /usr/bin/db_archive
> /usr/bin/db_checkpoint
> /usr/bin/db_deadlock
> /usr/bin/db_dump
> /usr/bin/db_load
> /usr/bin/db_printlog
> /usr/bin/db_recover
> /usr/bin/db_stat
> /usr/bin/db_upbrade
> /usr/bin/db_verify
> 
> These 11 files also give a verify error of:
> S.?......
> 
> Don't know if that's a cause or a result of the yum hang.
> 
The following succeeded in correcting the problem:

yum erase db4-utils
yum erase db4-devel
yum update
# note: updated only db4
yum install db4-devel
yum install db4-utils