Hi List,

for a x problem I reinstall the complete x packages. I remove some packages with force.
Before this yum works perfect. Exact at this time we have problem with our internet connections and yum hangs somewhere when yum load the repositories and or start the update process.

Now yum hangs at start from the command. I can start yum some times and no locking error is rise.

strace brings:

stat("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=79855616, ...}) = 0
open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY) = 4
fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
read(4, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0a\25\6\0\10\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\10\0\0\306K\0\0"..., 512) = 512
close(4) = 0
open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY) = 4
fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=79855616, ...}) = 0
futex(0x2b72ede63934, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NULL <unfinished ...>


when i execute yum update

System:
Linux kbhws18 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus #1 SMP Fri Oct 9 12:27:45 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
CentOS release 5.4 (Final)

I found a bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444321


can someone help me or give me a hint?

thanks for all

regards Dietmar

If I try to rebuild the rpm db it run might into the same problem:

stat("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=79855616, ...}) = 0
open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY) = 4
fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
read(4, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0a\25\6\0\10\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\10\0\0\306K\0\0"..., 512) = 512
close(4) = 0
open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY) = 4
fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=79855616, ...}) = 0
futex(0x2b45b4542ef4, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NULL

It seems to be more a rpm related problem instead yum?

regards Dietmar

Did you do ?

Hi,

this is the solution.

With remove some files and rebuild db yum update works like expected :-)

Thanks for the tip

regards Dietmar