F9beta update takes forever

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Sun Apr 20 03:30:13 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 07:31 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> > John Summerfield wrote:
> > 
> >> Again, so far it's been running for over twelve hours, and showing no
> >> progress
> > 
> > Something (else) is apparently way-wrong with your box, and it isn't yum.
> 
> It's beyond dispute that something is wrong with the box, but yum really 
> ought not hang forever, whatever might be wrong.
> 
> Network connectivity is fine; I control both ends and the intervening 
> link, and everything is working file (else my mail wouldn't be coming 
> and going).
> 
> That said, yum doesn't seem to be using anything outside the box. The 
> box isn't particularly busy:
> [summer at potoroo ~]$ uptime 
> 
>   07:24:16 up 4 days, 12:03, 11 users,  load average: 0.88, 0.58, 0.86 
>  
> 
> [summer at potoroo ~]$ 
> 
>  From top:
> Tasks: 142 total,   2 running, 140 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  2.9%us,  1.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 95.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.2%si, 
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   2012232k total,  1951568k used,    60664k free,   308800k buffers
> Swap:  1572848k total,      240k used,  1572608k free,   953400k cached
> 
>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND 
> 
> 29574 root      20   0  335m  99m 7700 S  0.0  5.1   0:35.65 yum 
> 
> 
> It's not running any other programs, so far as I can see:
> [summer at potoroo ~]$ ps fttty2
>    PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
>   2783 tty2     Ss     0:02 -bash
> 29574 tty2     S+     0:35  \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum 
> --disablerepo=rawhide* -y upgrade
> [summer at potoroo ~]$
> 
> 

strace -p it - tell me if it is futex_wait, and if not, what it is
doing.

-sv





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