[rhelv6-list] why do errata and package updates fail?

[thomas at redhat.com]

On 10/09/2012 11:10 AM, Mirko Vukovic wrote:
> yum update installed 26 packages.  The system shows as up-to-date on RHN.

Without seeing the logs from the previous commands, it's almost 
impossible to tell what happened.

> It is still unresolved as to why some of the updates were not getting
> installed.  I noticed during yum update that kmod-nvidia was taking
> forever (more than a minute, but then, my system is fully loaded right
> now).   Could that have triggered a time-out?

What repositories do you have enabled? What is the output of the 
following command?

yum -v repolist

> On a related note, I have 16 AMD cores, and I am running simulations
> that occupy all of them (with nice set to 10).  Can that affect the
> update process?

It should not.

> (mind you, I'm not a system operator, but a scientist, so these is
> wild speculation)

I almost guarantee that the answers are in the system event log. Go to 
RHN, click on the system, choose "Events" in the menu just below the 
hostname, then choose "History" to see what happened.

> Thanks,
>
> Mirko
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, thomas at redhat.com <thomas at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Rebooting should not affect it. Was there any error? Look at the system's
>> event history on RHN to see.
>>
>> Might also clean up any old RHN info cached on the machine. yum clean
>> metadata or even yum clean all.
>>
>> You can also run yum update on the console or an ssh session to view or
>> capture any errors.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> From: Mirko Vukovic
>> Sent: Tue, Oct 9, 2012 08:28 AM
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