On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:08:08PM -0600, 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 No hung yum processes for me this morning (mostly SL5.2 systems, a few SL5.0) and yum.log shows all the updates as being installed, but I have noticed something a little odd. Some (not all) of the yum.cron emails this morning included the message: There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them. Running yum-complete-transaction gives the following messages (among others): Removing: cups i386 1:1.3.7-8.el5_3.6 installed 9.8 M cups-libs i386 1:1.3.7-8.el5_3.6 installed 317 k nfs-utils-lib i386 1.0.8-7.2.z2 installed 103 k popt i386 1.10.2-48.el5 installed 121 k and then a stream of messages about other stuff which also needs to be removed, so I aborted the command when given the chance. yum update worked normally (it updated the kernel but nothing else). I wonder if it's significant that "yum list cups" mentions only one version: cups.i386 1:1.3.7-8.el5_3.6 installed but the other three packages mentioned all seem to have two versions installed e.g.: cups-libs.i386 1:1.3.7-8.el5_3.6 installed cups-libs.i386 1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 installed Eva.