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. MailTo:[log in to unmask] | http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Information without accountability is just noise." - P.L. Nelson