[Yum] yum running multiple times at once

[Joshua Jensen]

Oops, sorry to steal this thread.  I'll get my own next time.

Joshua



On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 09:29:52AM -0400, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> We've got a machine that is running yum from cron, and currently has 
> something like 12 instances of yum running.  It looks like an rpm lock 
> issues for a new yum process I start:
> 
> stat64("/var/lib/rpm/__db.001", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=16384, ...}) = 0
> open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.001", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
> fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=16384, ...}) = 0
> close(3)                                = 0
> open("/var/lib/rpm/__db.001", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
> fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0xb73b2000
> close(3)                                = 0
> futex(0xb73b2000, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL)  = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> --- SIGINT (Interrupt) @ 0 (0) ---
> rt_sigreturn(0xb73b2000)                = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> futex(0xb73b2000, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL)  = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> --- SIGINT (Interrupt) @ 0 (0) ---
> rt_sigreturn(0xb73b2000)                = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> futex(0xb73b2000, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL)  = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> --- SIGINT (Interrupt) @ 0 (0) ---
> rt_sigreturn(0xb73b2000)                = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
> ....etc....
> 
> 
> Isn't yum's own /var/run/yum.pid lockfile supposed to keep yum from
> running but once?  If so, shouldn't yum check this file *first* before
> trying for a lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 ??  This is disturbing.
> 
> 
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> Joshua Jensen
> joshua at iwsp.com
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Joshua Jensen
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"If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?"