yum going to sleep in the background?

Giovanni P. Tirloni tirloni at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 22:07:27 UTC 2009


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.


>>
> 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


Giovanni P. Tirloni
tirloni at gmail.com







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