Re: up2date issue?

"Stephen John Smoogen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general
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On 6/30/06, Ken Snider <[email protected]> wrote:
> On several fairly current RHEL4 AMD64 boxes, running update (either up2date
> -l or for a package, say up2date rsync) is resulting in up2date hanging.
> CTRL-C does nothing but place the process in the "T" (Trace) state,
> according to PS. a kill -9 is required to stop it.
>

The only times I have seen this is due to network issues or a bad
cache. One issuie was a proxy in between acting up. It was a
transparent proxy.. so we didn't know about it for a while. The other
issue was just cleared up with a clean-up of /var/spool/up2date.


> I've now seen this on several discreet boxen, so I can pretty much rule out
> a one-off issue.
>
> Anyone else seen anything like this before?
>
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