I am experiencing a problem with yum on one of my CentOS-5.5 systems. Specifically, on Friday past (July 16), I ran yum update as root. Yum displayed all of the outdated packages and asked if I wanted to proceed. An answered yes. This first package downloaded was nss. At this point yum simply stopped processing or responding. A ctrl-c at the yum session terminal window did not interrupt the task. Top did not display any yum processes. I killed that particular process to regain the console session, but I had to use -9 because nothing else worked. Yum continues to behave in this strange manner. Any invocation of yum with any option just stops responding. Before I manually remove yum and reinstall it using rpm could anyone provide a clue as to what might be happening here and how it might be cured. I found this one entry from yum in the log files: /var/log/messages.1:Jul 16 00:14:43 gway01 kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 1380, UID 0, (yum-updatesd-he). However, this entry occurred some time before I attempted my update task later that same morning. I would like to be directly copied on any replies as I am a digest subscriber. Sincerely, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3
On 7/19/2010 1:00 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:> I am experiencing a problem with yum on one of my CentOS-5.5 > systems. Specifically, on Friday past (July 16), I ran yum update > as root. Yum displayed all of the outdated packages and asked if I > wanted to proceed. An answered yes. This first package downloaded > was nss. At this point yum simply stopped processing or responding. > A ctrl-c at the yum session terminal window did not interrupt the > task. Top did not display any yum processes. > > I killed that particular process to regain the console session, but > I had to use -9 because nothing else worked. Yum continues to > behave in this strange manner. Any invocation of yum with any > option just stops responding. > > Before I manually remove yum and reinstall it using rpm could anyone > provide a clue as to what might be happening here and how it might > be cured. I found this one entry from yum in the log files: > > /var/log/messages.1:Jul 16 00:14:43 gway01 kernel: Out of memory: > Killed process 1380, UID 0, (yum-updatesd-he). > > However, this entry occurred some time before I attempted my update > task later that same morning. > > I would like to be directly copied on any replies as I am a digest > subscriber.My first attempt would be to do a "yum clean all" and then try it again. -- Bowie
On Mon, July 19, 2010 16:01, James Hogarth wrote:> Sent from Android mobile > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "James Hogarth" <james.hogarth at gmail.com> > Date: 19 Jul 2010 21:00 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problem with yum > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > > With the kernel logging an out of memory error? My first instinct > would be > to check free to see the status of RAM and swap and perhaps end > unnecessary > processes..What I ended up doing was rebooting the server and that seems to have cleared the problem. Trying yum clear all did not work as the yum process stalled as before. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3