[SOLVED] yum update stuck

hallomoto · 02-13-2019, 12:31 PM

yum is stuck here. I have already:

Code:

yum clean all
rm -rf /var/cache/yum 
rpm --rebuilddb
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

rebooted

Code:

This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.
Determining fastest mirrors
 * base: mirror.genesisadaptive.com
 * extras: centos.den.host-engine.com
 * updates: mirror.wdc1.us.leaseweb.net
base                                                                                                     | 3.6 kB  00:00:00
extras                                                                                                   | 3.4 kB  00:00:00
google-chrome                                                                                            | 1.3 kB  00:00:00
updates                                                                                                  | 3.4 kB  00:00:00
(1/5): base/7/x86_64/group_gz                                                                            | 166 kB  00:00:00
(2/5): extras/7/x86_64/primary_db                                                                        | 157 kB  00:00:00
(3/5): google-chrome/x86_64/primary                                                                      | 1.7 kB  00:00:00
(4/5): updates/7/x86_64/primary_db                                                                       | 2.4 MB  00:00:01
(5/5): base/7/x86_64/primary_db                                                                          | 6.0 MB  00:00:02

jsbjsb001 · 02-13-2019, 07:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hallomoto

yum is stuck here. I have already:

Code:

yum clean all
rm -rf /var/cache/yum 
rpm --rebuilddb
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

rebooted

Code:

This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.
Determining fastest mirrors
 * base: mirror.genesisadaptive.com
 * extras: centos.den.host-engine.com
 * updates: mirror.wdc1.us.leaseweb.net
base                                                                                                     | 3.6 kB  00:00:00
extras                                                                                                   | 3.4 kB  00:00:00
google-chrome                                                                                            | 1.3 kB  00:00:00
updates                                                                                                  | 3.4 kB  00:00:00
(1/5): base/7/x86_64/group_gz                                                                            | 166 kB  00:00:00
(2/5): extras/7/x86_64/primary_db                                                                        | 157 kB  00:00:00
(3/5): google-chrome/x86_64/primary                                                                      | 1.7 kB  00:00:00
(4/5): updates/7/x86_64/primary_db                                                                       | 2.4 MB  00:00:01
(5/5): base/7/x86_64/primary_db                                                                          | 6.0 MB  00:00:02

First of all, it seems from your output that you are using RHEL, therefore you should be contacting them for help.

Second of all, you have not given the command you entered for your second output, so it's difficult to say what's going on without us knowing what that command was.

I think you should contact Red Hat for help, or at least provide the above information, and also exactly what it is you're trying to do.

hallomoto · 02-14-2019, 11:41 AM

yum update was the command.
yum update is what i'm trying to do.

pcscd was locking yum. killing that process let yum resume

newhmagon · 02-17-2019, 03:16 AM

first run the command "top" and find out the process ID of yum.

now kill the process using the below command:

kill (process ID)

then reboot the system and after login run yum update.

sprasant10 · 02-15-2021, 10:16 AM

Hi All,

I came here to find solution and followed the mentioned previous steps, which eventually couldnt resolve my issue. please find my observations below to resolve the same.

1- Its purely a memory issues and generally happen on smaller machine i.e. 1GB RAM so
--> to validate its memory issue , open a new session by duplicating the same and run #yum update all and on other #top command
--> you will see how this command is draining memory and when free memory left <50mb you receive "Killed" output

Now solution Part:
1- Either increase the instance size
2- configure swap space, double to configured memory

swapon --show
fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
swapon --show
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=2048 count=1048576
swapon --show
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
swapon --show
vi /etc/fstab (Copy this content "/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0")
swapon --show
free -h
yum install ntp* -y