status of fixes for yum-updatesd. Any News?
Paul Johnson
pauljohn32 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 18:36:12 UTC 2007
On 8/10/07, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/10/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > This is the old "yum-updatesd does not work" questions. Why is there no fix?
> > See
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue98#head-83bd5fb03fc6ac5d3657d1b2de0bc05de58740f9
> >
> > Rahul
> >
> Wow. That's a nice reference. Thank you for pointing it out.
> Somebody is making a lot of effort to compile those notes!
>
> I'll install the yum-updatesd from updates-testing to see if it helps.
>
I am disappointed to say that the yum-updatesd still does not update
anything. Who does it work for?
I can run yum manually and it does see updates. However, the
yum-updatesd daemon does not appear to find the updates, or it does
not find them. Then it locks up the yum process, as in:
# yum update
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 2862. Aborting.
# ps aux | grep yum
root 2862 0.0 5.1 100456 79436 ? SN Aug13 0:06
/usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd
root 10505 0.0 0.0 4012 712 pts/0 S+ 13:31 0:00 grep yum
That yum-updatesd has been running since yesterday, it seems unlikely
it will ever do anything. So
# ps aux | grep yum
root 2862 0.0 5.1 100456 79436 ? SN Aug13 0:06
/usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd
root 10505 0.0 0.0 4012 712 pts/0 S+ 13:31 0:00 grep yum
# yum update
Setting up Update Process
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 3.8 MB 00:04
adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
kups 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ggobi.i386 0:2.1.5-1FC7 set to be updated
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
ggobi i386 2.1.5-1FC7 kups 651 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 1 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 651 k
yum-updatesd must be working for somebody, or else it seems there
would be more conversation about it. But I have not been able to find
anybody for whom it does work!
# rpm -qa | grep yum
yumex-1.9.10-2.0.fc7
yum-3.2.2-1.fc7
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.0-2.fc7
yum-updatesd-3.2.2-1.fc7
]# cat /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf
[main]
# how often to check for new updates (in seconds)
run_interval = 3600
# how often to allow checking on request (in seconds)
updaterefresh = 600
# how to send notifications (valid: dbus, email, syslog)
emit_via = syslog
# automatically install updates
do_update = yes
# automatically download updates
do_download = yes
# automatically download deps of updates
do_download_deps = yes
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Paul E. Johnson
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