up2date hang on dependency test
Felipe Alfaro Solana
felipe_alfaro at linuxmail.org
Fri Oct 24 22:45:40 UTC 2003
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 21:06, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:47:33PM -0400, Will Backman wrote:
> > Upgrade from RedHat9 to Fedora Core, test 3.
> > Downloaded latest up2date from rawhide, rpm -Fvh up2date*.rpm
> > up2date -u --nosig sits there for a very very long time on testing
> > package set/solving RPM inter-dependencies. (like an hour...) I get
> > tired of waiting and ctl+c it.
> > I even ran rpm --rebuilddb and tried again.
> > Anyone else getting this?
>
> Yes. I've been seeing it off and on for a few weeks.
> Did an FCt3 install earlier this afternoon.
> First thing I did after booting was up2date -fu, and its still
> sitting there doing its thing nearly two hours later.
>
> strace on the up2date process shows its up to all sorts of things,
> including stat() of .hdr files for s390/ppc/x86_64 and other archs
> that are irrelevant to this box (i386).
I solved this problems by cleaning /var/cache/up2date and manually
upgrading to the latest up2date from Rawhide at ftp://ftp.redhat.com.
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