It's part of the yum-utils rpm which is not
installed by default in SL but is available via yum install
If you're running a Red Hat 5 system (as opposed to SL5)
it's indispensable to have yum-complete-transaction; you end
up using it a lot.
Steve
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
> 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
>>>>>> 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill.
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>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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