The nash subprocess is trying to scan all the disks in your system
at that point of the kernel update process. If there is
a disk that is very big or very slow or hung up for some
reason, that could make it hang.
Steve Timm
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, [email protected] wrote:
Hi !
I've got a problem with kernel installation/upgrades on only a few machines
with yum or directly with rpm ...
root 28088 2.1 7.0 45316 36256 pts/1 S+ 13:36 0:34
/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum -y update kernel*
root 28094 0.0 0.1 2496 916 pts/1 S+ 13:38 0:00 /bin/sh
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47101 4
root 28098 0.0 0.1 2496 1000 pts/1 S+ 13:38 0:00 /bin/bash
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install
2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
root 28107 0.0 0.2 2748 1248 pts/1 S+ 13:38 0:00 /bin/bash
--norc /sbin/mkinitrd --allow-missing -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.img
2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
root 28170 0.0 0.1 2748 744 pts/1 S+ 13:38 0:00 /bin/bash
--norc /sbin/mkinitrd --allow-missing -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.img
2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
root 28172 0.0 0.1 2728 712 pts/1 D+ 13:38 0:00 /sbin/nash
--forcequiet
or directly with rpm ..
rpm -ivvv kernel-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.i686.rpm
D: install: %post(kernel-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.i686) asynchronous scriptlet
start
D: install: %post(kernel-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.i686) execv(/bin/sh) pid
29590
++ uname -i
++ uname -i
+ '[' i386 == x86_64 -o i386 == i386 ']'
+ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/kernel ']'
+ /bin/sed -i -e 's/^DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-smp$/DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel/'
/etc/sysconfig/kernel
+ /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install
2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
.... got somebody any idea what's going wrong or could/should i do ?
Thanks & Cheers,
Martin
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Fermilab Computing Division, Scientific Computing Facilities,
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