[rhn-users] up2date broken

[Vincent Berger]

Hi Jesse.

I had a pb last week, look like yours.

Trying strace on update I saw that 
the prog is freezing on futex().

May be a previous up2date crashed and locked all.

All things go better after a reboot (unfortunately).

Regards, vinzo.



Le vendredi 18 novembre 2005 à 03:25 -0600, Jesse a écrit :

> Greetings all. I’m new to the list. 
> 
> Having trouble with up2date. Using the command line utility in the following 
> way. 
> 
> up2date –nox –u 
> 
> The app fails just before RPM dependencies are resolved. The following line 
> prints on the terminal… 
> 
> xloadimage-4.1-36.RHEL3.x86 ########################## Done.
> An error has occurred:
> exceptions.TypeError
> See /var/log/up2date for more information 
> 
> A tail of /var/log/up2date reveals the following… 
> 
> [Fri Nov 18 03:01:31 2005] up2date updating login info
> [Fri Nov 18 03:01:31 2005] up2date logging into up2date server
> [Fri Nov 18 03:01:32 2005] up2date successfully retrieved authentication 
> token from up2date server
> [Fri Nov 18 03:01:32 2005] up2date availablePackageList from network
> [Fri Nov 18 03:01:32 2005] up2date Unable to import repomd support so repomd 
> support will not be available
> [Fri Nov 18 03:01:36 2005] up2date installing packages: 
> ['curl-7.10.6-7.rhel3', 'curl-devel-7.10.6-7.rhel3', 'ethereal-0.10.
> [Fri Nov 18 03:01:36 2005] up2date   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1265, in 
> ?
>    sys.exit(main() or 0)
>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 800, in main
>    fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1137, in batchRun
>    batch.run()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 90, in run
>    self.__installPackages()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 174, in 
> __installPackages
>    self.kernelsToInstall = up2date.installPackages(self.packagesToInstall, 
> self.rpmCallback)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 695, in 
> installPackages
>    if providename in cfg['pkgsToInstallNotUpdate']: 
> 
> Cant use the gnome version either. It just freezes. I tried 
> force-reinstalling the RPM for up2date. The RMP installs fine, but up2date 
> still behaves the same way. 
> 
> Info about our system/kernel - Linux circle.rfc1532.com 2.4.21-32.ELsmp #1 
> SMP Fri Apr 15 21:03:28 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 3 for AMD64/Intel EM64T) 
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Kind regards, 
> 
> Jesse 
> 
> 
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