On 6 September 2014 23:53, Robert Xu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6 September 2014 13:59, Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 6, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Luca Pedrielli wrote:
>>
>> but why it happens only during big pkgs updates?
>>
>>
>> That question as posed is unanswerable.
>>
>> If you think there are "hangs" during a urpmi update, then
>> log onto the system and use top looking for activity.
>>
>> If no activity, then look for a deadlock using dbXY_utils
>> something like
>>
>> dbXY_stat -CA # (-Cl displays the active locks)
>>
>> Run that command twice and compare the output if necessary.
>>
>> There is no reason whatsoever to suspect a "hang" in
>> URPM -> rpm -> bdb
>> correlated with "big pkg" downloads however.
>>
>
> I know there's no reason to suspect RPM or BDB, but I just tried
> bootstrapping a chroot
> using urpmi and it just... freezes the whole system. I don't know why,
> because I'm
> bootstrapping from a minimal VM (no X, no silly libraries, nothing), so...

TIL not to bootstrap with --fast-unsafe, because that will almost certainly
freeze the system.

-- 
cheers, Robert :: github.com/robxu9
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