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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