Bug 865601
| Summary: | yum loops indefinitely when it cannot create pid file | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | David Kutálek <dkutalek> |
| Component: | yum | Assignee: | Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 6.3 | CC: | james.antill |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-04-15 20:49:32 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This request was not resolved in time for the current release. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We did a lot of changes in this area, and at this point in RHEL-6 we probably don't want to backport all of them. It should work in RHEL-7, but given this is an edge case and how many other edge cases (and not so edge cases) had to be navigated I can't see this getting fixed before then. |
Description of problem: cannot ceate yum.pid file (some issue with /var on my system) and keep looping, waiting for itself - see pids below: # yum upgrade & fg [1] 8202 yum upgrade Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager Updating certificate-based repositories. Unable to read consumer identity Could not create lock at /var/run/yum.pid: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/var/run/yum.pid' Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... The other application is: yum Memory : 21 M RSS (320 MB VSZ) Started: Thu Oct 11 23:13:21 2012 - 00:01 ago State : Running, pid: 8202 Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... The other application is: yum Memory : 21 M RSS (320 MB VSZ) Started: Thu Oct 11 23:13:21 2012 - 00:03 ago State : Running, pid: 8202 ^C Same for yum-builddep: # /usr/bin/yum-builddep -y hsqldb-1.8.0.10-9.el6.src.rpm -v -v -v & fg [1] 8094 /usr/bin/yum-builddep -y hsqldb-1.8.0.10-9.el6.src.rpm -v -v -v Not loading "rhnplugin" plugin, as it is disabled Not loading "blacklist" plugin, as it is disabled Loading "product-id" plugin Loading "refresh-packagekit" plugin Not loading "whiteout" plugin, as it is disabled Config time: 0.049 Could not create lock at /var/run/yum.pid: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/var/run/yum.pid' Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... The other application is: yum-builddep Memory : 21 M RSS (320 MB VSZ) Started: Thu Oct 11 23:06:03 2012 - 00:01 ago State : Running, pid: 8094 Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... The other application is: yum-builddep Memory : 21 M RSS (320 MB VSZ) Started: Thu Oct 11 23:06:03 2012 - 00:03 ago State : Running, pid: 8094 ^C I have some problem with file creation in /var - some other issue to be investigated, but anyway yum-builddep should behave better in such situation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.29-30.el6.noarch yum-utils-1.1.30-14.el6.noarch How reproducible: Always on my system with (somehow) broken /var file creation Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above, try to simulate '[Errno 22] Invalid argument' for pid creation 2. may be worth trying also other similar conditions... 3. Actual results: yum / yum-builddep is looping waiting for itself Expected results: yum should work somehow or more probably just end with some sane error because of pid file problems Additional info: