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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