[Yum] bizarre yum badness -- packages removed instead of updated...

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:59:09AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> This feels like it is a function of the openafs package being updated
> but I don't know what's going on here from this.

So, here's another weird thing. On systems where AFS was busy when it
tried to stop it -- part of the openafs-client preuninstall check which only
runs when $1=0 (that is, on package erase), everything ended up running
fine. But what in the world would cause it to even *try* if it's updating,
not removing?

Example:

Unmounting /afs and stopping AFS services: [FAILED]

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
=============================================================================
Installing:
 kernel-devel            x86_64     2.6.9-42.0.2.EL  bulinux-updates   3.6M
 kernel-smp              x86_64     2.6.9-42.0.2.EL  bulinux-updates    11M
Updating:
 kernel-smp-devel        x86_64     2.6.9-42.0.2.EL  bulinux-updates   3.7M
 openafs                 x86_64     1.4.1-1bu45s.5s  bulinux-updates   3.0M
 openafs-client          x86_64     1.4.1-1bu45s.5s  bulinux-updates   1.3M
Removing:
 kernel-devel            x86_64     2.6.9-34.0.1.EL  installed          11M
 kernel-smp              x86_64     2.6.9-34.0.1.EL  installed          31M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      2 Package(s)         
Update       3 Package(s)         
Remove       2 Package(s)         
Total download size: 23 M

Removed: kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.9-34.0.1.EL kernel-smp.x86_64
0:2.6.9-34.0.1.EL
Installed: kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.9-42.0.2.EL kernel-smp.x86_64
0:2.6.9-42.0.2.EL
Updated: kernel-smp-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.9-42.0.2.EL openafs.x86_64
0:1.4.1-1bu45s.5s openafs-client.x86_64 0:1.4.1-1bu45s.5s


------------------------------------------------------------------------
The yum update generated the following warnings. This may include 
configuration or other files created with a alternate name eg. rpmnew
or other information regarding the package update.

umount: /afs: device is busy
umount: /afs: device is busy

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