Problems installing/upgrading RH9

[Julian Field]

At 13:53 29/11/2003, you wrote:
>I'm running into problems upgrading/installing on a RH9 machine (perl 5.8):
>root     27871  0.0  0.0  1452  448 ?        S    04:02   0:00 CROND
>root     27872  0.0  0.0  2056  916 ?        S    04:02   0:00 /bin/bash
>/usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily
>root     28286  0.0  0.0  2040  836 ?        S    04:02   0:00 /bin/sh
>/etc/cron.daily/rpm
>root     28287  0.0  0.1  5320 1384 ?        S    04:02   0:00
>/usr/lib/rpm/rpmq -q --all --qf %{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm\n
>root     28288  0.0  0.0 35212  460 ?        S    04:02   0:00 sort
>root     28289  0.0  0.0  1824  512 ?        S    04:02   0:00 awk -v
>progname=/etc/cron.daily/rpm progname {?????   print progname ":\n"?????
>progname="";????       }????       { print; }
>root     10724  0.0  1.2 14576 12728 ?       S    12:21   0:00
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>root     11167  0.0  1.2 14688 13064 ?       S    12:41   0:00
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>root     11374  0.0  1.2 14580 12952 ?       S    12:48   0:00
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>root     11663  0.0  0.3  5576 3624 ?        S    13:00   0:00 /usr/bin/perl
>/usr/bin/poprelayd -d
>root     11945  0.0  1.2 14644 13016 ?       S    13:04   0:00
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>root     12944  0.0  0.1  6756 2012 ?        S    13:38   0:00
>/usr/sbin/sshd
>root     12948  0.0  0.1  4404 1496 pts/2    S    13:38   0:00 -bash
>root     13005  0.0  0.1  4156 1068 pts/2    S    13:39   0:00 /bin/sh
>./install.sh
>root     13008  0.0  0.1  7380 1548 pts/2    S    13:39   0:00
>/usr/lib/rpm/rpmq -q binutils glibc-devel gcc make
>root     13058  0.0  1.2 14476 12760 ?       S    13:41   0:00
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>root     13151  0.0  0.2  6756 2092 ?        R    13:45   0:00
>/usr/sbin/sshd
>root     13153  0.0  0.1  4396 1476 pts/3    S    13:45   0:00 -bash
>root     13270  0.0  0.0  3680  544 ?        S    13:49   0:00 sleep 10
>root     13271  0.0  0.1  3024 1088 pts/3    R    13:49   0:00 ps -aux
>root     13272  0.0  0.0  3576  636 pts/3    S    13:49   0:00 grep root
>
>We are running 3 servers with practically indentical hardware, OS and
>software but only one of them is giving problems.
>After starting the install via install.sh
>I get stuck with that:
>root     pts/2    office.blacknigh  1:38pm 12:23   0.32s  0.01s  /bin/sh
>./install.sh
>
>As you can see over 12 minutes later it is still running with no progress
>
>Any ideas?

 From the looks of it, the daily rpm cron job is running while you are
trying to install the new MS. It will lock until the cron job completes,
which may take some time. Alternatively you can kill it with kill 28289.
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