[Yum-devel] Still impossible to exit yum

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Tue Jul 3 12:52:31 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 08:42 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> Hi, all:
> 
> Just a reminder that it's still impossible to exit yum using Ctrl-C or
> Ctrl-\. It always just switches to a different mirror, no matter how
> quickly or frequently I press ctrl-c or ctrl-\. I believe it was
> claimed "fixed" several times in the past, but it still is not working
> as of 3.2.1. This means that if you're using mirrorlists, yum is
> near-impossible to exit.
> 
> There should be a way to interrupt yum, at least during
> package/metadata download. That's very basic functionality, and it is
> missing. Having to Ctrl-z and then kill -9 is not very friendly to
> users nor admins.
> 

okay, I'm open to suggestions. The last time we stepped around the
problem using menno's work for an opportunistic access to the rpmdb it
was purported that we were corrupting the rpmdb. That may or may not
have turned out to be the case as there was another kernel mmap issue at
the same time. However, I'm game to figuring out ways of fixing this
issue w/o waiting for rpm modifications to occur.

Do we want to try menno's patch to the rpmdb access again? Or are there
other suggestions?

-sv





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