I found what the problem was!!! Buried way down in a folder that has nothing to do with RPM's or the package I was installing was a stale NFS mount. Matt nailed it right off. I have since removed the old NFS servers mount from fstab and hope to never have this problem again.
On 7/5/07, Shawn Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Same result :( On 7/5/07, Shane Lofgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you tried killall <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killall>? > -Shane > > > On 7/5/07, Shawn Badger < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I don't see any child processes under the rpm's PID and no parent > > processes either. I even killed the shell process that I used to launch the > > rpm command from. I left it running all day yesterday in hopes that it > > would be cleaned up, but no such luck. > > > > On 7/5/07, Dan Lund < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > The problem with rpm is that you can leave that process there for a > > > week and it won't reap itself. > > > Its a very odd scenario. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/5/07, Darrin Chandler < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 08:09:54AM -0700, Dan Lund wrote: > > > > > On 7/5/07, Matt Graham < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday 05 July 2007 10:27, after a long battle with > > > technology, > > > > > > Shawn Badger wrote: > > > > > > > how do you kill something when kill -9 doesn't work? > > > > > > > > > > > > You don't, generally. SIGKILL will kill anything that isn't > > > waiting on > > > > > > a syscall to return. If something is waiting on a syscall to > > > return > > > > > > for more than about 0.5 seconds, you've got a hardware > > > problem, a > > > > > > kernel bug, or a dead NFS server. (There's currently a live > > > thread on > > > > > > comp.os.linux.misc about SIGKILL, oddly enough.) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > No, it does happen with the rpm application rarely, and almost > > > always > > > > > its so honked up that a SIGKILL won't terminate it. > > > > > I've seen it once or twice myself, and it almost always has to > > > do with > > > > > a corrupted rpm database. > > > > > As far as killing it, that's something that I'd love to figure > > > out.... > > > > > Though I've only ran into this on new installs when I'm applying > > > > > patches. I've always just figured itd take less man hours to > > > > > re-install. > > > > > > > > No, he's got it right. There's nothing that -9 won't kill unless > > > the > > > > kernel looks at it and says "oh, I'm not killing that!" The most > > > common > > > > form of this is a zombie process, which is a dead process that the > > > > kernel keeps around waiting for the zombie's child to finish. Let > > > the > > > > child exit on it's own, or kill the child process, and then kernel > > > will > > > > (sooner or later) clean up the zombie itself. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ > > > > http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global > > > BUG > > > > Federation > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > "Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it." > > > -Napoleon Bonaparte > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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