Bug 110952
| Summary: | "yum update" command hangs | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | chip piller <piller> |
| Component: | yum | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-12-23 16:15:36 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | 101749 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | |||
Try removing stale locks by doing
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
Does that fix?
Yes, if I rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* then the command will succeed. However, I need to repeat this process every time I reboot the computer. The fedora core install on this pc is an upgrade from RH9. No, __db* files are cleaned when rebooting. You might want to insure that you are running rpm-4.2-1 or later, available at ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/4.2.x, there are known stale lock issues with rpm-4.2-0.69 in RHL 9. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: I run "yum update" from the command line. yum starts normally, checks the server, downloads headers, asks if I want to update packages. I enter "y", yum downloads the packages, yum runs a test transaction and reports success, then yum starts the install process. At this point yum will hang while installing the first part of the update (done 1/X, see below). I wait for a while, several minutes, but there is no visible progress, the cursor continues to blink. CTRL-C and CTRL-D have no effect so I log in and kill -9 the yum update process. If I try to run "yum update" again it hangs immediately, it does not check with the server or anything. If I manually remove the three __db* files from the /var/lib/rpm directory and then run the "yum update" command the update will succeed, although it does not download the packages as it knows that the packages were downloaded in the earlier attempt. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.0.4-2 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.run "yum update" as root from command line 2.the process will hang as it starts to do the actual update installation Actual Results: process hangs Expected Results: process should not hang, yum should successfully complete the installation of updated packages Additional info: ### I'm using a stock yum.conf file ### ### here is some of the output which shows where yum hangs ### [update: ethereal 0.9.16-2.FC1.1.i386] Is this ok [y/N]: y Getting ethereal-gnome-0.9.16-2.FC1.1.i386.rpm ethereal-gnome-0.9.16-2.F 100% |=========================| 2.5 MB 00:32 Getting ethereal-0.9.16-2.FC1.1.i386.rpm ethereal-0.9.16-2.FC1.1.i 100% |=========================| 3.2 MB 00:49 Running test transaction: Test transaction complete, Success! ethereal 100 % done 1/4 ### yum hangs at this point ### ### here is some output from ps ax ### ### I don't know what the netstat process is doing ### 4186 ? S 0:00 sshd: piller [priv] 4188 ? S 0:00 sshd: piller@pts/1 4190 pts/1 S 0:00 -bash 4237 pts/1 S 0:00 su 4241 pts/1 S 0:00 bash 4285 pts/1 S 0:18 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum update 4293 ? Z 0:00 [netstat <defunct>] 4303 ? S 0:00 sshd: piller [priv] 4305 ? S 0:00 sshd: piller@pts/2 4308 pts/2 S 0:00 -bash 4355 pts/2 S 0:00 su 4359 pts/2 S 0:00 bash 4401 pts/2 R 0:00 ps ax