The nash subprocess is trying to scan all the disks in your system
at that point of the kernel update process. If there is
a disk that is very big or very slow or hung up for some
reason, that could make it hang.

Steve Timm


On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I've got a problem with kernel installation/upgrades on only a few machines 
> with yum or directly with rpm ...
>
> root     28088  2.1  7.0  45316 36256 pts/1    S+   13:36   0:34 
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum -y update kernel*
> root     28094  0.0  0.1   2496   916 pts/1    S+   13:38   0:00 /bin/sh 
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47101 4
> root     28098  0.0  0.1   2496  1000 pts/1    S+   13:38   0:00 /bin/bash 
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install 
> 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
> root     28107  0.0  0.2   2748  1248 pts/1    S+   13:38   0:00 /bin/bash 
> --norc /sbin/mkinitrd --allow-missing -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.img 
> 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
> root     28170  0.0  0.1   2748   744 pts/1    S+   13:38   0:00 /bin/bash 
> --norc /sbin/mkinitrd --allow-missing -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.img 
> 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
> root     28172  0.0  0.1   2728   712 pts/1    D+   13:38   0:00 /sbin/nash 
> --forcequiet
>
>
> or directly with rpm ..
>
> rpm -ivvv kernel-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.i686.rpm
>
>
> D:   install: %post(kernel-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.i686) asynchronous scriptlet 
> start
> D:   install: %post(kernel-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.i686)    execv(/bin/sh) pid 
> 29590
> ++ uname -i
> ++ uname -i
> + '[' i386 == x86_64 -o i386 == i386 ']'
> + '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/kernel ']'
> + /bin/sed -i -e 's/^DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-smp$/DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel/' 
> /etc/sysconfig/kernel
> + /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install 
> 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
>
>
> .... got somebody any idea what's going wrong or could/should i do ?
>
> Thanks & Cheers,
>
>       Martin
>

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