Kernel-2.6.24-0.118.rc5.git6.fc9 locking update transactions

[Tom London]

On Dec 21, 2007 5:05 PM, Jim Cornette <fct-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> How do you get the kernel to install with this error or give up updating
> cleanly? The current transaction sticks at the below without
> progressing. The kernel is the only thing for the transaction. It was
> installed within the group of installs using pup. The transaction locked
> up a little over two minutes into the transaction. While on its own, it
> is 16 seconds and holding.
>
> Jim
>
> Total download size: 17 M
> Downloading Packages:
> (1/1): kernel-2.6.24-0.11 100% |=========================|  17 MB
> 00:52
> Running rpm_check_debug
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
>    Installing: kernel                       ######################### [1/1]
> nash received SIGSEGV!  Backtrace (11):
> /sbin/nash[0x805315a]
> [0x110440]
> /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x4a2b1a3]
> /usr/lib/libbdevid.so.6.0.24(bdevid_module_unload_all+0x31)[0x285e37]
> /usr/lib/libbdevid.so.6.0.24(bdevid_destroy+0x2d)[0x28557c]
> /usr/lib/libnash.so.6.0.24[0x2ce198]
> /usr/lib/libnash.so.6.0.24(nash_vitals_destroy_probes+0x3f)[0x2ce810]
> /usr/lib/libnash.so.6.0.24(_nashFreeContext+0x1c)[0x2befd6]
> /sbin/nash[0x80536f4]
> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0x5374a0]
> /sbin/nash[0x804ae71]
>
BZ'ed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426524

Updating mkinitrd and nash from koji appears to fix (or wait until
next rawhide push).

tom
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Tom London