Description of problem: I have been noticing for a while that I sometimes have bash command lines that seem to hang when I enter an invalid command... its been very annoying. Last night I decided to investigate, and what I discovered is that when an invalid command is entered, an attempt to run /usr/libexec/pk-command-not-found which I assume tries to mutually exclusively get access to the yum database. If the system is running yum at the time, or if the GUI tool has been run (or one of the background package checks is running, or indeed if another shell is having a bad command lookup at the same time) this leads to bash appearing to hang. Worse yet, on one of my AMD 965 quad core machines, I have been noticing some sort of nasty interaction between the graphical package upgrade running and this bash interference where they both seem to hang indefinitely until I manually go in and start killing yum/packagekit processes. When I attached with gdb, both tasks were waiting on poll() which seems like it can't be good. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every time (although unsure exactly how to reproduce the situation that requires me to use kill) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a GUI upgrade check (if you haven't done one in a while, otherwise might need to first do a yum clean all.) 2. Launch a Terminal and enter an invalid command Actual results: 1. Starts checking 2. bash will hang after producing "Command not found." 3. In some cases the upgrade check seems to hang indefinitely thus blocking bash indefinitely Expected results: I don't expect bash to ever block... it needs a better technique for doing whatever /usr/libexec/pk-command-not-found does... since I don't know what its doing, its hard to say how to improve it... but it needs to not require the exclusive packagekit lock... Additional info: I am running a F13 beta in a "development" config with all available package updates applied.
We have to take the yum lock whilst using data from yum. It's just not possible with the current infrastructure.
[re comment#1] Then I suggest you need a way to export the data in a way that something equivalent to grep could search to supply your feature. This would require the file to be updated whenever the package list is updated, but would prevent bash from directly interacting with yum's data.
"We have to take the yum lock whilst using data from yum. It's just not possible with the current infrastructure." is another comment from the *code's* point of view, not the users' point of view. It is unacceptable for the command line to hang simply because something else is running in the system. Either there _is_ a way to check first whether yum is active and not hang the user, or this nicety must be withdrawn as actually impeding the user, not helping them. "nicety: 6. delicacy of character", as in 'fragile'?
(In reply to comment #3) > Either there _is_ a way to check first whether yum is active and not hang the > user, or this nicety must be withdrawn as actually impeding the user, not > helping them. We can certainly time out the request after a few hundred milliseconds. If you're willing to supply a patch I can include it in the next release. If you join the mailing list I'm sure me or someone else can guide you how. Richard.
I had a little time this morning: commit 886787fdb119c4e974ef44cc1ffcb31bc0b42407 Author: Richard Hughes <richard> Date: Fri Jun 4 12:52:58 2010 +0100 cnf: Add a MaxSearchTime entry in CommandNotFound.conf and default to 2000ms Testing required.
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