Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 180729
yum hung several times (e.g. when issued yum remove eclipse)
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:53:28 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: Yesterday I tried to update my system. I started "yum update" on a console. I even stopped X before. When I checked this morning it hung. I guess it was while installing nss. I stopped the process and started yum update a second time. The process hung at the same point. After that I did a cd /var/cache/yum/develop/packages for i in * ; rpm --install $i ; done for i in * ; rpm --freshen $i ; done I repeated each loop several times and read the messages. I recognized that one of the conflicts was related to ant and eclipse. So I tried to remove eclipse manually yum remove eclipse It hung again. I retried this several times. But then I tried yum remove eclipse-ecj for some reason this worked. I think it would be great if you could try to detect such hangs in yum and maybe try to resolve them. I already experienced hangs in yum in FC4 (release version). So this unfortunately seems not to be a rare case. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install FC5 Test2 2a.yum update 3a.it hangs 2b. yum remove eclipse 3b. it hangs 2c. yum search nss 3c. it works, but you cant stop it and it runs for a long time! it tried it and in the end I couldnt help but close the window Actual Results: yum hangs at some points Expected Results: it should not hang or if it does it should detect this condition and try to guide the user out of this situation/file automatic error reports Additional info:
if you could strace yum when it hangs to tell us where it is hanging and to make sure that nothing else is accessing the rpmdb when you're running this command. thanks
Hi, sorry I resolved the problem by installing/removing packages explicitely (yum remove package / yum update packages), so unfortunately I can not reproduce the problem now. If I ever encounter this problem again I'll do a strace. I am sure that nothing else accessed the library, because sometimes it hangs just in the middle of processing. First it installes many packages without problems and than out of the blue it hangs. Juergen
These bugs are being closed since a large number of updates have been released after the FC5 test1 and test2 releases. Kindly update your system by running yum update as root user or try out the third and final test version of FC5 being released in a short while and verify if the bugs are still present on the system .Reopen or file new bug reports as appropriate after confirming the presence of this issue. Thanks