[WBEL-users] Re: [WBEL-users] yum not working ?

[timspam@meanor.net]

One thing you can do to see if yum is actually doing anything is install
strace (if it isn't already) and execute "strace -p PID" where PID is
the pid of yum.  This will allow you to see the various system calls
that yum is performing (if any).  It may also give you a hint as to
what the problem is.  

HTH 

Tim

Jeff Lasman <blists@nobaloney.net> wrote on 09/19/2004, 03:31:59 AM:
> I hope I haven't missed a simple answer somewhere, but I've just spent 
> about two hours reading prior posts to the list, and I can't find the 
> one that answers my problem, if there is one.
> 
> We're running the latest WBEL 3.  Server only, no desktop stuff 
> installed.
> 
> We run at runlevel 3.
> 
> We note there is a symbolic link at /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S97rhnsd
> 
> But /usr/sbin/rhnsd doesn't seem to be running:
> 
> 
> [jeff@admin rc3.d]$ ps waux | grep rhn
> jeff  23323  0.0  0.0  3676  672 pts/0    S    18:24   0:00 grep rhn
> [jeff@admin rc3.d]$
> 
> 
> Additionally, we've got a file at /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron with this 
> contents:
> 
> 
> if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then
>         /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum
>         /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update
> fi
> 
> 
> and yes, there is a file at /var/lock/subsys/yum.
> 
> But when i run yum this way:
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
> 
> It seems to run forever (hours) until I stop it, and the log file at 
> /var/log/yum.log is always of 0 length.
> 
> I haven't changed anything except some excludes in the config file at 
> /etc/yum.conf; it still has these URLs:
> 
> 
> [base]
> name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
> baseurl=ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
>         
> ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
>         
> ftp://ftp.kspei.com/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
>         
> ftp://ftp.jach.hawaii.edu/pub/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
>         
> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/whiteboxlinux/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
>         
> ftp://ftp.opensourcemirrors.org/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
>         http://whitebox.phantomhosting.com/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
> 
> [updates-released]
> name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Released 
> Updates
> baseurl=http://whitebox.phantomhosting.com/$releasever/en/updates/
>         
> ftp://ftp.opensourcemirrors.org/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/
>         
> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/whiteboxlinux/$releasever/en/updates/
>         
> ftp://ftp.jach.hawaii.edu/pub/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/
>         
> ftp://ftp.kspei.com/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/
>         
> ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/$releasever/en/updates/
>         
> ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/
> 
> 
> Any ideas as to what I should be looking for?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jeff
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