On 8/10/07, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8/10/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > This is the old "yum-updatesd does not work" questions. Why is there no fix? > > See > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue98#head-83bd5fb03fc6ac5d3657d1b2de0bc05de58740f9 > > > > Rahul > > > Wow. That's a nice reference. Thank you for pointing it out. > Somebody is making a lot of effort to compile those notes! > > I'll install the yum-updatesd from updates-testing to see if it helps. > I am disappointed to say that the yum-updatesd still does not update anything. Who does it work for? I can run yum manually and it does see updates. However, the yum-updatesd daemon does not appear to find the updates, or it does not find them. Then it locks up the yum process, as in: # yum update Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 2862. Aborting. # ps aux | grep yum root 2862 0.0 5.1 100456 79436 ? SN Aug13 0:06 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd root 10505 0.0 0.0 4012 712 pts/0 S+ 13:31 0:00 grep yum That yum-updatesd has been running since yesterday, it seems unlikely it will ever do anything. So # ps aux | grep yum root 2862 0.0 5.1 100456 79436 ? SN Aug13 0:06 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd root 10505 0.0 0.0 4012 712 pts/0 S+ 13:31 0:00 grep yum # yum update Setting up Update Process fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00 primary.sqlite.bz2 100% |=========================| 3.8 MB 00:04 adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 kups 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package ggobi.i386 0:2.1.5-1FC7 set to be updated Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Updating: ggobi i386 2.1.5-1FC7 kups 651 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 1 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 651 k yum-updatesd must be working for somebody, or else it seems there would be more conversation about it. But I have not been able to find anybody for whom it does work! # rpm -qa | grep yum yumex-1.9.10-2.0.fc7 yum-3.2.2-1.fc7 yum-metadata-parser-1.1.0-2.fc7 yum-updatesd-3.2.2-1.fc7 ]# cat /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf [main] # how often to check for new updates (in seconds) run_interval = 3600 # how often to allow checking on request (in seconds) updaterefresh = 600 # how to send notifications (valid: dbus, email, syslog) emit_via = syslog # automatically install updates do_update = yes # automatically download updates do_download = yes # automatically download deps of updates do_download_deps = yes -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
