yum going to sleep in the background?

[Paul]

Paul wrote:
> I have a weird thing happening with yum since yesterday, or possibly
> since the last update, which iirc included yum-updatesd.
>
> When I do a "yum update", after I confirm that I want the updates to be
> installed, yum goes to sleep in the background and does not perform the
> updates.
>
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> root         1  0.0  0.0  10348   708 ?        Ss   Sep29   0:00 init [3]                                   
> .
> .
> .
> postfix  17210  0.0  0.0  42508  2088 ?        S    12:06   0:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u
> root     17635  0.0  0.0  90120  3268 ?        Ss   12:07   0:00 sshd: jpb [priv] 
> jpb      17644  0.0  0.0  90120  1772 ?        S    12:07   0:00 sshd: jpb at pts/0  
> jpb      17645  0.0  0.0  66100  1500 pts/0    Ss   12:07   0:00 -bash
> root     17659  0.0  0.0  66100  1508 pts/0    S    12:07   0:00 -bash
> root     18851  0.8  1.3 288320 54212 pts/0    S+   12:43   0:02 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum update
> postfix  20707  0.0  0.0  42512  2116 ?        S    12:47   0:00 showq -t unix -u
> root     21389  0.0  0.0  90120  3272 ?        Ss   12:48   0:00 sshd: jpb [priv] 
> jpb      21412  0.0  0.0  90120  1764 ?        S    12:48   0:00 sshd: jpb at pts/1  
> jpb      21413  0.0  0.0  66100  1492 pts/1    Ss   12:48   0:00 -bash
> root     21427  0.0  0.0  66100  1500 pts/1    S    12:48   0:00 -bash
> root     21868  0.0  0.0  65628   980 pts/1    R+   12:48   0:00 ps aux
> postfix  30335  0.0  0.0  42504  2192 ?        S    Sep29   0:00 tlsmgr -l -t unix -u
>
>
> I've never had this happen before, on any server, ever.
>
> What's going on here? How do I get it to just do the update and be done with?
>   
I tried to update just the kernel (yum update kernel*), and after
sitting for a long time it puked up this:

Error Downloading Packages:
  kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.x86_64: failed to retrieve
getPackage/kenel-2.6.18-164.2.2.el5.x86_64.rpm from rhel-x86_64-server-5
error was [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error >

I've never had a problem with yum before, but yum itself was updated the
last time I ran "yum updates". Could something have happened to it?

Cheers,


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Paul Blonde
EnTel Communications Inc
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