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[Jim Cornette]

Paul Dickson wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:28:29 -0400, buildsys at redhat.com wrote:
> 
>> kernel-2.6.17-1.2396.fc6
>> ------------------------
>> * Thu Jul 13 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
>> - 2.6.18-rc1-git7
>> - More lockdep fixes.
>> - Fix slab corruption issue.
>>
>> * Thu Jul 13 2006 Mike Christie <mchristi at redhat.com>
>> - Add iscsi update being sent upstream for 2.6.18-rc2
>>
>> * Thu Jul 13 2006 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com>
>> - Fix spec typo that swallowed kdump subpackage.
> 
> This runs forever while attempting to install.  I had to kill the nash
> process to get it to continue.
> 
> $ ps faxu
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> root     21145  2.6 10.7 149152 138424 pts/1   S+   10:28   8:52  |  \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum update --exc
> root     30617  0.0  0.0   4444  1096 pts/1    S+   11:19   0:00  |      \_ /bin/sh /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.48603 11
> root     30622  0.0  0.0   4440  1188 pts/1    S+   11:19   0:00  |          \_ /bin/bash /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --
> root     31455  0.0  0.0   4440   496 pts/1    S+   11:20   0:00  |              \_ /bin/bash /sbin/new-kernel-pk
> root     31457 99.9  0.0   2516   792 pts/1    R+   11:20 279:16  |                  \_ /sbin/nash --forcequiet
> 
> I uninstalled it and tried again with the same results.
> 
> 	-Paul
> 

I encountered the same problem with the nash hanging. Instead of killing 
nash, which consumed most of the cpu percentage and did not progress, I 
killed pup which messed up the system with multiple versions. Nash was 
still consuming a tremendous amount of cpu time. I then killed nash and 
cleaned up the aftermath with rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs on 
all but the kernel rpms. zlib had a scriptlet error but the other 
non-kernel packages seem to be alright now. (used cached rpms from 
/var/cache/development/packages)

Afterwards, I tried to do the same thing for the kernel with the -ivh 
option instead and --replacefiles and --replacepkgs but rpm reported 
defects within the kernel rpm. I did not download the kernel and try 
again since the above repeated results from this message.

Jim

I uninstalled the last kernel and was going to

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