Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 18.12.2012 19:41, schrieb Ken Smith: >> Hi All, I have a Centos 5.8 system with relatively little memory, that >> runs in rl3, where yum has decided not to work any more. {snip} >> >> Any ideas where to look - I'm a bit stumped > > at least with "dmesg" and in /var/log/messages where ANY > useful information will be found if problems happening > Indeed. Nothing is getting logged to messages. Here are the last few system calls logged by running yum via strace open("/usr/lib/python2.4/_socketmodule.so", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/python2.4/_socket.py", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/python2.4/_socket.pyc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/usr/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2/_socket", 0xbfdb3954) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2/_socket.so", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2/_socketmodule.so", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2/_socket.py", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2/_socket.pyc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/_socket", 0xbfdb3954) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/_socket.so", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/_socketmodule.so", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/_socket.py", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/_socket.pyc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_socket", 0xbfdb3954) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_socket.so", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_socketmodule.so", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 7 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=49268, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/_socketmodule.so", O_RDONLY) = 8 read(8, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240\33\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=49268, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 48008, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 8, 0) = 0xdcc000 mmap2(0xdd5000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 8, 0x9) = 0xdd5000 close(8) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ whereas on a good system, albeit 64 bit, it proceds beyond that point, as follows... open("/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/_socketmodule.so", O_RDONLY) = 7 fstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=52152, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/_socketmodule.so", O_RDONLY) = 8 read(8, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0`.\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832 fstat(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=52152, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 2147440, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 8, 0) = 0x2ae0a0858000 mprotect(0x2ae0a0862000, 2093056, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(0x2ae0a0a61000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 8, 0x9000) = 0x2ae0a0a61000 close(8) = 0 mmap(NULL, 266240, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2ae0a0a65000 close(7) = 0 On both the faulty system and a good one, yum appears to hunt for various versions of python files. Anyone with more knowledge that I have of system calls, is there a clue in here? Thanks Ken -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.