[Yum] ouch - yum-interlock on the cron process needed

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Jan 18 23:22:54 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 09:51, R P Herrold wrote:
> or maybe a yum pid check at startup. ...
> 
> I was out at a client with intermittent internet access -- I 
> found this on one of the servers.
> 
> check-packages, and yum each are querying into the rpm 
> database.  It is an almost certainty that there is a deadly 
> embrace on the database here.
> 
> I'll reboot and analyze in a moment -- but at a minimum, only
> one instance should be running at any time.  A lockfile
> mechanism for the cron version seems needed, if not the more
> formal approach of checking for a valid yum pid lockfile at
> startup, and bailing if found.
> 

I think this should be fixed now - the locking I implemented in the most
recent daily should do the right thing.

-sv






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