I was applying patches to a system yesterday and ran into a problem. The yum transaction (initiated from Katello as part of a host_collection update operation) failed with a "too many open files" type error.
Transaction ID : 22 Begin time : Sun Apr 23 06:58:51 2017 Begin rpmdb : 577:26374e5863e3ea247fb52909e95e53f8062161aa End time : 06:58:56 2017 (5 seconds) End rpmdb : 577:26374e5863e3ea247fb52909e95e53f8062161aa User : System <unset> Return-Code : Failure: 1 Scriptlet output: 1 error: systemd-libs-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64: install failed 2 error: nspr-4.13.1-1.0.el7_3.x86_64: install failed 3 error: nss-util-3.28.4-1.0.el7_3.x86_64: install failed 4 error: libgudev1-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64: install failed 5 error: libuuid-2.23.2-33.el7_3.2.x86_64: install failed 6 error: libblkid-2.23.2-33.el7_3.2.x86_64: install failed 7 error: audit-libs-2.6.5-3.el7_3.1.x86_64: install failed 8 error: libsss_idmap-1.14.0-43.el7_3.14.x86_64: install failed 9 error: ipa-common-4.4.0-14.el7.centos.7.noarch: install failed 10 error: libmount-2.23.2-33.el7_3.2.x86_64: install failed 11 error: error creating temporary file /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.DO30rh: Too many open files 12 error: Couldn't create temporary file for %pre(systemd-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64): Too many open files 13 error: systemd-219-30.el7_3.8.x86_64: install failed 14 error: util-linux-2.23.2-33.el7_3.2.x86_64: install failed 15 error: error creating temporary file /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.UOeiAX: Too many open files 16 error: Couldn't create temporary file for %pre(openssh-6.6.1p1-35.el7_3.x86_64): Too many open files Everything after that was just more of the same (Too many open files). Do I need to bump up the number of open files for goferd? Regards, --Tony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
