Troy Dawson wrote on 11/12/2009 1:43 PM:
> 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
No prob. But I am curious about this 'yum-complete-transaction' command
that's mentioned in the 5.x version of the yum man page (not in 4.x)
but is not found as a command.
Thanks again!
- Larry
> 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
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