yum going to sleep in the background?

[Paul]

Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Paul wrote:
>
>> Paul wrote:
>>> I have a weird thing happening with yum since yesterday, or possibly
>>> since the last update, which iirc included yum-updatesd.
>>>
>>> When I do a "yum update", after I confirm that I want the updates to be
>>> installed, yum goes to sleep in the background and does not perform the
>>> updates.
>>>
>>> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME
>>> COMMAND
>>> root         1  0.0  0.0  10348   708 ?        Ss   Sep29   0:00
>>> init [3]
>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>> postfix  17210  0.0  0.0  42508  2088 ?        S    12:06   0:00
>>> pickup -l -t fifo -u
>>> root     17635  0.0  0.0  90120  3268 ?        Ss   12:07   0:00
>>> sshd: jpb [priv]
>>> jpb      17644  0.0  0.0  90120  1772 ?        S    12:07   0:00
>>> sshd: jpb at pts/0
>>> jpb      17645  0.0  0.0  66100  1500 pts/0    Ss   12:07   0:00 -bash
>>> root     17659  0.0  0.0  66100  1508 pts/0    S    12:07   0:00 -bash
>>> root     18851  0.8  1.3 288320 54212 pts/0    S+   12:43   0:02
>>> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum update
>>> postfix  20707  0.0  0.0  42512  2116 ?        S    12:47   0:00
>>> showq -t unix -u
>>> root     21389  0.0  0.0  90120  3272 ?        Ss   12:48   0:00
>>> sshd: jpb [priv]
>>> jpb      21412  0.0  0.0  90120  1764 ?        S    12:48   0:00
>>> sshd: jpb at pts/1
>>> jpb      21413  0.0  0.0  66100  1492 pts/1    Ss   12:48   0:00 -bash
>>> root     21427  0.0  0.0  66100  1500 pts/1    S    12:48   0:00 -bash
>>> root     21868  0.0  0.0  65628   980 pts/1    R+   12:48   0:00 ps aux
>>> postfix  30335  0.0  0.0  42504  2192 ?        S    Sep29   0:00
>>> tlsmgr -l -t unix -u
>>>
>>>
>>> I've never had this happen before, on any server, ever.
>>>
>>> What's going on here? How do I get it to just do the update and be
>>> done with?
>
>  Do you mean you run 'yum update', answer yes to the question and it
> goes into the the background and releases the prompt for you? That's
> weird.

No, it goes to the background and doesn't release the prompt, and stays
that way until the terminal session expires. If I open another terminal
session, I can use ps to show me that yum is "sleeping".

>
>
>>>
>> I tried to update just the kernel (yum update kernel*), and after
>> sitting for a long time it puked up this:
>>
>> Error Downloading Packages:
>>  kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.x86_64: failed to retrieve
>> getPackage/kenel-2.6.18-164.2.2.el5.x86_64.rpm from rhel-x86_64-server-5
>> error was [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error >
>>
>> I've never had a problem with yum before, but yum itself was updated the
>> last time I ran "yum updates". Could something have happened to it?
>
> See if the following article solves it for you.
>
> http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-16881

I don't know if I am affected by these changes, I haven't upgraded to
5.4. I'll try disabling location aware updates.

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Paul