[Cialug] Fedora - the dreaded rpmq failure

[David Champion]

I don't see that there's any yum related cron jobs on this box (FC6).
I'm not saying that a conflict like this couldn't be the initial cause
of the problem, but it seems that the end result is a corrupted Berkely
DB file, not a lock issue.

-dc

Tom Pohl wrote:
> Sorry, I had a centos box that I was on when I wrote that.
> 
> Looking at one of my Fedora Core 4 boxes, I wonder if there is conflict
> between the cron.daily script yum and the cron.daily rpm script that
> gives you a locking issue.  Looking at the run-parts script, it appears
> that rpm would run before yum nightly.  Is it possible that the previous
> night's yum script got hung up and the next night, rpm becomes grumpy
> waiting for the lock to release?
> 
> -Tom
> 
> 
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 1:08 PM, David Champion wrote:
> 
>> Tom Pohl wrote:
>>> Bah, just turn off yum-updatesd and I bet the problem goes away :)
>>>
>>> Who really wants updates to automatically download / download & install
>>> anyway?
>>>
>>> -Tom
>>
>> Not running yum-updatesd. This is the job that is hanging nightly...
>>
>> # cat /etc/cron.daily/rpm
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> /bin/rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm\n' 2>&1 \
>>         | /bin/sort > /var/log/rpmpkgs
>>
>>
>> Probably not mission-critical. I removed the script until I get this
>> fixed. There's a nearly identical version of this script in Mandriva
>> (just has the absolute paths removed from the bins), and it works fine.
>>
>> -dc
>>
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