up2date openssh hangs - Re: duplicate packages after up2date failure

[Alexander Lazarevich]

This problem was previously discussed in post:

"duplicate packages after up2date failure" by Damian Menscher on Sun, 9 
Oct 2005 16:53:17 -0500 (CDT).

We have the same problem on a FC4x86_64 machine. I've notice that up2date 
of openssh causes a similar (unkillable) useradd process to hang the 
machine. After a hard reboot, the up2date openssh seems to have succeeded, 
but the old openssh is still around:

openssh.x86_64                           4.2p1-fc4.1            installed
openssh.x86_64                           4.0p1-3                installed

Messy, but ssh seems works.

What I'd like to know is, for any future up2date's, is redhat going to fix 
this FC4U2/up2date/useradd/64bit kernel problem. Or should we just roll 
back to FC3x86_64, which doesn't have this problem (not that I've heard 
of, we have a 64bitFC3 system that up2dates just fine).

I agree with Damian in that up2date should install and clean each package 
individually before moving onto the next.

Alex