yum and "rpm -U" not working

Margaret Doll Margaret_Doll at brown.edu
Thu Jan 21 19:26:18 UTC 2010


Thanks, George.  I found the system that was not responding to a  
mount.  The entry is not in /etc/fstab,  so I
missed the problem.


On Jan 21, 2010, at 2:12 PM, George Magklaras wrote:

> Do a dmesg as root and try to see if you have any filesystem issues  
> first. Then it's good to see if you have too many things and /var  
> might be out of space.
>
> GM
>
>
> Margaret Doll wrote:
>> 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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