Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 159846
up2date hangs with: warning: waiting for transaction lock
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:18 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Red Hat/1.7.8-1.4.1 Description of problem: up2date gui runs, fetches headers for channel. when packages are selected the dependencies check stalls/hangs with warning: waiting for transaction lock Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.4.5.6-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run up2date 2.select a package to update 3. Actual Results: launching Konsole shows the error message warning: waiting for transaction lock and the up2date session hangs. You must <ctl>c or kill the process to get the Konsole prompt back. Expected Results: up2date should continue with package download and install. Additional info:
Problem solved. A hpwebjet startup script was hung (on every reboot) trying to install print filters. killing the spawned rpm process and removing /var/lock/rpm/transaction enabled running up2date. The actual hang was with rpm, not up2date.