OK, just shows that no matter how well you test something, you never
know until it goes live.
Well, I'll pull the cups update out of the repo's, and leave the rpm
part in. I'll make a note to push cups out in a couple weeks.
Sorry about that.
Troy
P. Larry Nelson wrote:
> Troy,
>
> Troy Dawson wrote on 11/12/2009 1:18 PM:
>> Back when we originally tried to release this version of cups, we
>> determined that a newer version of rpm was needed.
>> But in our tests, we didn't have any systems just hang. They all were
>> spewing these odd messages.
>> What happens if you update rpm before updating cups?
>
> That works. (at least on one system I'm testing on).
>
> For the detail-minded:
> I tried killing off the hung processes - the first two, the yum.cron
> and the awk, died just fine. The python needed a 'kill -9'.
>
> Then doing a 'yum update rpm*', I got the message:
> There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running
> yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.
>
> Turns out, 'yum-complete-transaction' *is* mentioned in the man page
> for yum, but my system can't find it - command not found. I tried
> running it after the rpm update. Instead, I just ran another 'yum update'
> and the cups and nfs-utils (the only other one left to do) updated
> just fine.
>
> Thanks Troy!
> - Larry
>
>> Maybe we need to pull cups out of the repo for a week or two while rpm
>> get's updated on older SL 5 systems.
>>
>> Troy
>>
>> Steven J. Yellin wrote:
>>> I saw it last night, too, and it happened again when I tried "yum
>>> update" a few minutes ago (not long after noon CST) after rebooting an
>>> SL5.1 machine.
>>>
>>> Steven Yellin
>>>
>>> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Is anyone else seeing last nite's update "hang" on SL5.1 systems?
>>>> Near as I can tell, it's hanging on cups-1.3.7-11.el5_4.3.
>>>>
>>>> I have 3 SL5.1 systems (all the 5.3 systems updated just fine)
>>>> that I did not get yum cron email from this morning, so went
>>>> investigating.
>>>>
>>>> A 'ps auxw | grep yum' on one of the 5.1 systems yields:
>>>> root 10050 0.0 0.0 2372 960 ? S 02:55 0:00
>>>> /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
>>>> root 10051 0.0 0.0 2124 580 ? S 02:55 0:00 awk
>>>> -v progname=/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron progname {????? print progname
>>>> ":\n"????? progname="";???? }???? { print; }
>>>> root 11422 0.1 3.1 58104 49768 ? S 03:53 0:46
>>>> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum -c /tmp/yum.temp.config -e 0 -d 1 -y update
>>>>
>>>> =============================================================================
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Looking at /var/log/yum.log, I see:
>>>> Nov 12 03:58:58 Updated: popt-1.10.2.3-18.el5.i386
>>>> Nov 12 03:58:59 Updated: nfs-utils-lib-1.0.8-7.6.el5.i386
>>>> Nov 12 03:59:02 Updated: 1:cups-libs-1.3.7-11.el5_4.3.i386
>>>> Nov 12 03:59:03 Installed: nspr-devel-4.7.6-1.el5_4.i386
>>>> Nov 12 03:59:05 Installed: nss-devel-3.12.3.99.3-1.el5_3.2.i386
>>>>
>>>> =============================================================================
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So, the cups-libs got installed.
>>>>
>>>> On one of the 5.1 systems, last nite's yum did not run for some reason,
>>>> so I did it by hand and sure enough, it's stalled on cups (see end of
>>>> screen output below)
>>>>
>>>> Screen output from the manual update:
>>>> [root@elog ~]# yum update --exclude=evolution*
>>>> Loaded plugins: kernel-module
>>>> sl-security 100% |=========================| 951 B
>>>> 00:00
>>>> primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 817 kB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> sl-security 2157/2157
>>>> sl-base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
>>>> Finished
>>>> Setting up Update Process
>>>> Resolving Dependencies
>>>> --> Running transaction check
>>>> ---> Package nfs-utils.i386 1:1.0.9-42.el5 set to be updated
>>>> ---> Package cups.i386 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 set to be updated
>>>> ---> Package nfs-utils-lib.i386 0:1.0.8-7.6.el5 set to be updated
>>>> ---> Package rpm-python.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated
>>>> ---> Package popt.i386 0:1.10.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated
>>>> ---> Package rpm-devel.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated
>>>> --> Processing Dependency: nss-devel for package: rpm-devel
>>>> ---> Package rpm.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated
>>>> ---> Package cups-libs.i386 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 set to be updated
>>>> ---> Package rpm-libs.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated
>>>> ---> Package rpm-build.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated
>>>> --> Running transaction check
>>>> ---> Package nss-devel.i386 0:3.12.3.99.3-1.el5_3.2 set to be updated
>>>> --> Processing Dependency: nspr-devel >= 4.6.99 for package: nss-devel
>>>> --> Running transaction check
>>>> ---> Package nspr-devel.i386 0:4.7.6-1.el5_4 set to be updated
>>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>>> Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
>>>> Finished Kernel Module Plugin
>>>>
>>>> Dependencies Resolved
>>>>
>>>> =======================================================================================================================================
>>>>
>>>> Package Arch Version
>>>> Repository Size
>>>> =======================================================================================================================================
>>>>
>>>> Updating:
>>>> cups i386
>>>> 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 sl-security 3.4 M
>>>> cups-libs i386
>>>> 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 sl-security 195 k
>>>> nfs-utils i386 1:1.0.9-42.el5
>>>> sl-security 381 k
>>>> nfs-utils-lib i386 1.0.8-7.6.el5
>>>> sl-security 55 k
>>>> popt i386
>>>> 1.10.2.3-18.el5 sl-security 74 k
>>>> rpm i386 4.4.2.3-18.el5
>>>> sl-security 1.2 M
>>>> rpm-build i386 4.4.2.3-18.el5
>>>> sl-security 301 k
>>>> rpm-devel i386 4.4.2.3-18.el5
>>>> sl-security 1.2 M
>>>> rpm-libs i386 4.4.2.3-18.el5
>>>> sl-security 927 k
>>>> rpm-python i386 4.4.2.3-18.el5
>>>> sl-security 59 k
>>>> Installing for dependencies:
>>>> nspr-devel i386 4.7.6-1.el5_4
>>>> sl-security 112 k
>>>> nss-devel i386
>>>> 3.12.3.99.3-1.el5_3.2 sl-security 228 k
>>>>
>>>> Transaction Summary
>>>> =======================================================================================================================================
>>>>
>>>> Install 2 Package(s)
>>>> Update 10 Package(s)
>>>> Remove 0 Package(s)
>>>>
>>>> Total download size: 8.1 M
>>>> Is this ok [y/N]: y
>>>> Downloading Packages:
>>>> (1/12): nfs-utils-lib-1.0 100% |=========================| 55 kB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> (2/12): rpm-python-4.4.2. 100% |=========================| 59 kB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> (3/12): popt-1.10.2.3-18. 100% |=========================| 74 kB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> (4/12): nspr-devel-4.7.6- 100% |=========================| 112 kB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> (5/12): cups-libs-1.3.7-1 100% |=========================| 195 kB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> (6/12): nss-devel-3.12.3. 100% |=========================| 228 kB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> (7/12): rpm-build-4.4.2.3 100% |=========================| 301 kB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> (8/12): nfs-utils-1.0.9-4 100% |=========================| 381 kB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> (9/12): rpm-libs-4.4.2.3- 100% |=========================| 927 kB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> (10/12): rpm-4.4.2.3-18.e 100% |=========================| 1.2 MB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> (11/12): rpm-devel-4.4.2. 100% |=========================| 1.2 MB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> (12/12): cups-1.3.7-11.el 100% |=========================| 3.4 MB
>>>> 00:00
>>>> Running rpm_check_debug
>>>> Running Transaction Test
>>>> Finished Transaction Test
>>>> Transaction Test Succeeded
>>>> Running Transaction
>>>> Updating : popt [
>>>> 1/22]
>>>> Updating : nfs-utils-lib [
>>>> 2/22]
>>>> Updating : cups-libs [
>>>> 3/22]
>>>> Installing : nspr-devel [
>>>> 4/22]
>>>> Installing : nss-devel [
>>>> 5/22]
>>>> Updating : cups ############## [
>>>> 6/22]
>>>>
>>>> =============================================================================
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And there it sits, not getting any more cpu time.
>>>> Any ideas Troy & Connie?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> - Larry
>>>> --
>>>> P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator
>>>> 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group
>>>> 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill.
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>>>>
>>
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