yum going to sleep in the background?

[Paul]

Paul wrote:
> 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

It worked, thanks.

It would be nice if RH would just inform us that game changing options
have been made available, so that we can choose whether or not to use
them, instead of going ahead and changing them without asking. This is
the kind of stuff I expect from MS and SonicWall, not the company which
refuses to update packages until they are thoroughly tested, and only in
a new release, never an existing one.


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Paul