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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