At 9:01 AM -0400 6/19/07, Eric wrote: >At 01:34 AM 6/19/2007, Tony Nelson wrote: > > >> Maybe do `lsof | grep __db` first? > >Good morning, Tony. > >I did that. There are four such files: __db.000 through __db.003. Of >those, only __db.000 is closed; the others are open. The output from lsof includes the command. Some RPM-using thing is running. >But, I can't find >anything in "ps aux" that looks like it might use rpm, not that I am >exactly up to speed on everything that might user rpm. I know that yum, >yum_updatesd, and probably pup and pirut, all use rpm, but don't know if >anything else does. Punt. Reboot. >By the way, yum_updatesd is not running. I have it shut down because the >machine is located remotely (on the other side of the next city over from >here), I won't necessarily see notifications that updates are available, >and anyway I don't want to just blindly update everything; I'd rather >update only those things that need updating, mostly security-related stuff. > >Should I try to run rpm -rebuilddb in the state the machine is in now, or >should I perhaps reboot first, and then delete those __db.00x files? Rebooting will delete the old files. >I'll >need to drive over to the co-location facility to do that, but I guess I >can do that if need be. What about just ssh'ing in and issuing a reboot command? I don't administer any hardware servers, but it works fine for Qemu and for remote Xen servers. For that matter, I've also done `ifdown eth0 ; sleep 3 ; ifup eth0` on the Qemu server. The ssh connection isn't affected.) > >> When RPM seems to stop working, the locks are the most likely issue > >Just to clarify, then, are the __db.00x files the lock files? I thought of >lock files but looked through /var/lock (where I would have expected such >files to be) and didn't see anything that was likely to be relevant. AIUI, the __db.000 file contains many things, including kernel locks. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
