yum and "rpm -U" not working
Stainforth, Matthew (SD/DS)
Matthew.Stainforth at gnb.ca
Thu Jan 21 18:39:10 UTC 2010
I've seen df hang on a malfunctioning nfs mount.
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> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Margaret Doll
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 02:30
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: yum and "rpm -U" not working
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:03 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
> >>
> >> On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:01 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> >>
> >>> Margaret wrote:
> >>>>> From: Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>
> >>>>> Date: January 21, 2010 10:25:47 AM EST
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We are running 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5xen on our server.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Recently "yum update", "yum localinstall TIV*.rpm --nogpgcheck",
> >>>>> and versions of "rpm -U xterm" hang. yum hangs up on the
> >>>>> transition
> >>>>> check after all the packages have been downloaded. "rpm -U"
> tells
> >>>>> me which dependencies that I need, but hangs if I include the
> >>>>> dependencies in the list of programs to upgrade.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "rpm --rebuildbd" seems to work.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> How do I start debugging this problem?
> >>>
> >>> Is there any clue in /var/log/yum.log?
> > <snip>
> >> The kernel on which the system is running is xen, but the problem
> >> with
> >> rpm and yum still exists.
> >
> > Ok, so is there anything in the yum.log, from when it failed? Have
> you
> > tried rpm -Uvh xterm, to see if it said anything? Oh - and try rpm -
> > Uvvh -
> > I thought I remembered this, and yep, the man page sayeth "Print
> > lots of
> > ugly debugging information".
> >
> > Let us know what happens if you try that.
> >
> > mark
>
> Thanks, Mark and Gabi,
>
> rpm -Uvvh xterm*rpm
>
> ends with
>
> D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42
> D: mounted filesystems:
> D: i dev bsize bavail iavail mount point
>
> We are also having problems with df working completely. df also hangs
> after reporting most of the volumes that are mounted. We thought the
> problems were unrelated. Perhaps a reboot will help.
>
>
>
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