Problems installing/upgrading RH9

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

Julian

Ok. I'll try it again.

Mr. Michele Neylon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: 29 November 2003 14:03
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Problems installing/upgrading RH9
>
>
> 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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