Thanks Niki.

More specifically it hangs after: Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test

If I did yum clean all while app. is running then I get following message: [root@localhost ~]# yum clean all Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 17097. Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...

If pid file is removed then I can do clean all, however the processes still exist: [root@localhost ~]# rm /var/run/yum.pid rm: remove regular file `/var/run/yum.pid'? y [root@localhost ~]# yum clean all Cleaning up Everything [root@localhost ~]# ps ax | grep -i yum* 16794 ? S 0:05 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum install lsof 17097 pts/1 S+ 0:04 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum install lsof 17137 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep -i yum*

Any clues?

- CS

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Niki Kovacscontact@kikinovak.net wrote:

Carlos Santana a écrit :

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Howdy,

The yum install <package> hangs in between. This happened few days as well, but just after doing Ctrl+C it reported error with mirror and switched to another one. Today, however, it is not responding to Ctrl+C and kill or kill -9 command is also not working. Any clues?

Yes. From time to time, do the following:

# yum clean all

Cheers,

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Carlos Santana a écrit :

Thanks Niki.

More specifically it hangs after: Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test

If I did yum clean all while app. is running then I get following message: [root@localhost ~]# yum clean all Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 17097.

In that case, I bet this is your yum-updatesd daemon interfering. Try this:

# service yum-updatesd stop

And then:

# chkconfig yum-updatesd off

Basically, you can't have two instances of Yum running at the same time. Up to CentOS 5.2, yum-updatesd defaulted to on, but I understand since 5.3 it defaults to off.

Cheers,

Niki

Carlos Santana wrote:

• Process are not getting killed
• I do not have yum-updatesd service running, status returns

unrecognized service

Any help?

kill -9 ?

since the processes are sleeping kill -9 should work fine

nate

...

kill -9 ?

As specified in my first message, I have tried that. Its not working.. :(

What about rebooting the machine?

Neil

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Carlos:

What about kill -15?

Neil

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I am newbie, but I know diff in kill and kill -9.

Heres my o/p: [root@localhost ~]# ps ax | grep yum 16794 ? S 0:05 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum install lsof 17097 pts/1 S+ 0:04 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum install lsof 18082 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep yum [root@localhost ~]# kill -9 16794 17097 [root@localhost ~]# ps ax | grep yum 16794 ? S 0:05 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum install lsof 17097 pts/1 S+ 0:04 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum install lsof 18084 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep yum [root@localhost ~]# killall -9 yum [root@localhost ~]# ps ax | grep yum 16794 ? S 0:05 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum install lsof 17097 pts/1 S+ 0:04 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum install lsof 18087 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep yum

The /var/run/yum.pid does not exist (removed when I followed steps in my 2'nd msg).

- CS.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:47 PM, natecentos@linuxpowered.net wrote:

Carlos Santana wrote:

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As specified in my first message, I have tried that. Its not working.. :(

You've specifically tried kill -9 ? That just doesn't make sense, I have never seen a process in a "S" state that did not die as a result of a kill -9. "D" state yes, "Z" state yes, "T" state maybe, but never ever "S" (or any variant of S).

kill and kill -9 are not the same thing(sorry if it's obvious I don't know your level of expertise).

nate

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