yum and "rpm -U" not working

[Margaret Doll]

On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Marti, Robert wrote:

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> Subject: Re: yum and "rpm -U" not working
>
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> 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.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Is /var/ one of the mount points is doesn't return?  I would look at  
> disk issues if that's the case.  A reboot may cause more damage than  
> it would fix if you have something really screwed up.
>
> Rob Marti

It is returning /var.  When I first tried to update, /var was 100%  
full.  I moved things around using soft links
to free up space on /var.


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