On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 15:01 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Bryen, > > On Friday 09 November 2007 14:39, Bryen wrote: > > It seems that my software updates is hanging. Quick question, if I > > stop and restart it, will everything be okay? > > Please tell us something about your setup / configuration / > installation. > > Most importantly, which version of SuSE Linux / openSUSE are you > running? I'm going to guess it's something late model, maybe 10.3? > > Are you updating via the YaST Update module or via the tray applet? > > At what point or stage in the update process does it stall? Is it > repeatable, or, as it seems may be the case, is this the first time > it's happened and still sitting there hung? > > Generally speaking, it's not a good idea to kill a process that is or > might be writing to the package database or related system information, > but some hangs leave you with no alternative. > > I've seen hangs during update (and many other circumstances) related to > the just-fixed problem in the Reiser file system code. Have you applied > the latest kernel update? Or is that among the updates you're currently > trying to apply? > > You can tell if that's the case by running this command: > > % ps axl |egrep '\<D' > > and looking for processes with a capital 'D' in the "STAT" column (you > may get false hits from that simple egrep command). > > No process should remain in that state for more than a few dozen > milliseconds, for the most part. If the disk is very busy, it could be > longer, but the existence of any process that's stuck in that state is > an indication you've been bitten by the Reiser FS bug. There's nothing > to be done but reboot when that occurs. > > If that's the situation, hope for the best, reboot and re-run the system > update. Once you get the new kernel installed, you should be free of > this particular problem.
-Running 10.3, with ext3 file system -New kernel was installed yesterday -Updates via the applet in GNOME -Currently hanging package installation progress for libvrt -The only processes showing in % ps axl |egrep '\<D' are DNS and DHCP related processes. -Since I'm not running virtualization on this machine at this time (though it is enabled if I should choose to boot into dom0) I'm not too worried about reinstalling libvirt if necessary. Wonder if there's an "unpause" command of some sort? :-) > > Randall Schulz -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
