Bug 116582 - up2date hang when updating smp kernel
Summary: up2date hang when updating smp kernel
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: up2date
Version: 1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
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Assignee: Adrian Likins
QA Contact: Fanny Augustin
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: 116600 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-02-23 15:02 UTC by Peter Chiu
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-08-25 21:00:37 UTC
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Description Peter Chiu 2004-02-23 15:02:27 UTC
Description of problem:

The system is frozen when up2date is launched from a cron job.
It is later found that the kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl was 
successfully mounted, but not kernel-smp-2.22-1.2174.nptl.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2174

How reproducible: happened twice


Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up a cron job with /usr/sbin/up2date -u
2.
3.
  
Actual results: Most updates are done successfully, but
when kernel-smp is involved, the system will freeze.


Expected results: kernel-smp is updated


Additional info:

We use up2date to keep our FC1 box updated every day in a cron job.

Most often, the job completes successfully without trouble.

But when kernel-smp is involved, somehow the system will get locked up
and no activity will be allowed.

The cron job log will show:
...
Installing /var/spool/up2date/kernel-smtp-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.i686.rpm
and stops there.

The /var/log/up2date.1 will show
[Sat Feb 21 04:16:50 2004] up2date Creating rollback packages...

and stops there too.


It is noted that the kernel (kernel-2.4.22-1.2174) is successfully 
updated on the system and reflected in /boot/grub/grub.conf as an 
viable option.

However, there is no such option for kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2174.
Also, there is no /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp.img produced.

Under /var/spool/up2date, the kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.i686.rpm
is successfully fetched.

Indeed, I can get the problem by forcing a rpm update:
rpm -force -Uvh kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.i686.rpm

and the kit is successfully installed and reflected as a valid option
in /boot/grub/grub.conf.

Hence, I suspect there is a bug here with up2date when handling 
kenerl-smp update.  I rank this as high priority as the system 
is unusable when the problem strikes.

Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2004-02-24 00:47:33 UTC
*** Bug 116600 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Adrian Likins 2004-04-07 21:09:23 UTC
Interesting. Off hand, I have no idea what would cause kernel-smp
to fail when kernel works fine. up2date handles them the same
(and all packages that "provide: kernel" for that matter). 

It could be boot loader related, but it doesnt sound like it.
That generally would throw a traceback and a big error. 

If you have "rollback" enabled, that might be an issue, since
thats a less tread code path. Can you duplicate this behaviour
with rollback disabled?

Comment 3 Norman Gaywood 2004-04-27 04:14:32 UTC
I've seen this as well. I think it's another case of Bug 109962 where
the smp kernel will hang when doing a umount.

Part of the kernel updating involves creating an initrd. This means
creating a small filesystem, loop-back mounting this filesystem, then
umounting this filesystem. In the above bug, the SMP kernel has been
shown to hang when doing a umount.

This should be fixed in the latest FC1 SMP kernel.


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