Bug 159161

Summary:	yum hangs on kernel update
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	james
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3	CC:	katzj, nobody+pnasrat
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Hardware:	athlon
OS:	Linux
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Description james 2005-05-30 20:54:30 UTC

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Description of problem:
Attempting to update the kernel, yum hangs after "Running Transaction Test", with no disc activity and no cpu 
usage.

 $ sudo yum -y update kernel
 ...
 Resolving Dependencies
 --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
 ---> Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.11-1.27_FC3 set to be installed
 --> Running transaction check

 Dependencies Resolved
 Transaction Listing:
   Install: kernel.i586 0:2.6.11-1.27_FC3 - updates-released
 Total download size: 18 M
 Downloading Packages:
 Running Transaction Test
and hangs...

Also tried:
 $ sudo yum -y install kernel
with the same result.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-2.2.1-0.fc3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.$ sudo yum -y update kernel
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  yum hangs with no activity

Expected Results:  install kernel

Additional info:

Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2005-05-30 21:02:38 UTC

does the command 'df' hang?

how many kernels do you have installed?

If you strace the yum command what does it say it is doing?

Comment 2 james 2005-05-30 21:06:41 UTC

Hmm.  I just tried to run
 sudo rpm -ivh /var/cache/yum/updates-released/packages/kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i586.rpm
and that also hangs with no activity.  This is with rpm-4.3.2-21.

I suppose this is an rpm problem then, and not a yum problem.

Comment 3 Seth Vidal 2005-05-30 21:15:47 UTC

Answer the other questions I mentioned and we can see what might be causing it.

I think knowing what the strace output is and how many kernels you have
installed would help.

out of curiosity - is this really an i586 machine?

Comment 4 james 2005-05-30 21:28:46 UTC

> does the command 'df' hang?

Yes sir'ee Bob!  This seems to have something to do with an NFS mounted directory - flaky NFS at that.
I managed to unmount the remote directory and then rpm - and df - ran without problems.

Athlon machine, K7 I suppose - family 6, stepping 2.

Comment 5 Seth Vidal 2005-05-30 22:19:42 UTC

this is not a bug, closing.