[Cialug] Fedora - the dreaded rpmq failure

[Tom Pohl]

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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