yum-complete-transaction is in yum-utils-1.1.16-14.el5.noarch. Steven Yellin 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. 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