On Dec 20, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:44, Ken Schumacher <[email protected]> wrote: >> Stephen, >> >> The node was originally installed with the LTS 4.4 release (Wilson). Until >> recently, we have been running daily yum updates against the node, so all >> the necessary errata and security updates have been applied. Being a >> cluster head node, we can't jump the node up to a 5.x release without proper >> planning and scheduling of downtime, etc. Our user base expects the release >> to remain stable, so such upgrades are carefully considered. > > Well I thought that applying all the updates would bring the system to > 4.8 but I realize that Scientific Linux does keep old releases alive.
The statement that I am running 4.4 is based on the contents of /etc/redhat-release. [r...@jpsi1 kschu]# cat /etc/redhat-release Scientific Linux Fermi LTS release 4.4 (Wilson) [r...@jpsi1 kschu]# cat /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum logfile=/var/log/yum.log pluginpath=/usr/lib/yum-plugins/ debuglevel=2 distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 plugins=1 > What does 'rpm -Va --nofiles' tell you? [r...@jpsi1 kschu]# rpm -Va --nofiles Unsatisfied dependencies for srvadmin-isvc-5.5.0-328.i386: srvadmin-syscheck = 5.5.0, libncurses.so.5 Unsatisfied dependencies for srvadmin-deng-5.5.0-328.i386: srvadmin-syscheck = 5.5.0 Unsatisfied dependencies for srvadmin-omacore-5.5.0-328.i386: srvadmin-syscheck = 5.5.0, libncurses.so.5 Unsatisfied dependencies for mgmtst-racadm-5.5.0-364.i386: srvadmin-racadm5 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.28596: line 851: IntegrateWithGNOME: command not found Unsatisfied dependencies for mgmtst-racadm-5.5.0-364.i386: srvadmin-racadm5 Unsatisfied dependencies for openipmi-33.13.RHEL4-1dkms.noarch: dkms >= 2.0.9.3 Unsatisfied dependencies for srvadmin-omauth-5.5.0-328.rhel4.i386: srvadmin-syscheck = 5.5.0 Unsatisfied dependencies for delldset-1.7.0-119.i386: libbz2.so.1, libcrypto.so.4, libncursesw.so.5, libreadline.so.4, libssl.so.4, libsysfs.so.1 > How do you get the repodata for the systems (local mirror or remote one)? [r...@jpsi1 kschu]# yum clean all Loading "kernel-module" plugin Cleaning up Everything 0 headers removed 0 packages removed 7 metadata files removed 0 cache files removed 1 cache files removed [r...@jpsi1 kschu]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ [r...@jpsi1 yum.repos.d]# grep enabled=1 *.repo fermi-errata.repo:enabled=1 fermi.repo:enabled=1 sl.repo:enabled=1 > Can you try updating 1-2 packages directly? or does even yum list give > you a 2GB process? Simply doing a 'yum list' runs up memory consumption. I ran the following for 90 CPU seconds and 'top' reports that the yum process consumed 3 GB of memory. I used 'kill -15' to terminate the process. [r...@jpsi1 yum.repos.d]# time yum -d 5 list yum Loading "kernel-module" plugin Yum Version: 2.4.3 COMMAND: yum -d 5 Installroot: / Ext Commands: yum Setting up repositories Baseurl(s) for repo: ['ftp://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/lts42/x86_64/sites/Fermi/errata/Fermi/RPMS/', 'ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts42/x86_64/sites/Fermi/errata/Fermi/RPMS/'] fermi-errata 1.9 kB 00:00 Baseurl(s) for repo: ['ftp://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/lts42/x86_64/SL/RPMS/', 'ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts42/x86_64/SL/RPMS/'] sl-base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Baseurl(s) for repo: ['ftp://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/lts42/x86_64/sites/Fermi/Updates/', 'ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts42/x86_64/sites/Fermi/Updates/'] fermi-base 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Setting up Package Sacks primary.xml.gz 1.4 MB 00:00 Terminated real 1m39.494s user 1m34.095s sys 0m5.039s Stephen, I appreciate your questions and your looking at this. I'm hopeful that all the detail in this e-mail thread may help one of us (or someone else on the mailing list) see where the problem may be. Ken S. ============================================================== Ken Schumacher <[email protected]> (o) 630-840-4579 (f) 630-840-3109 Computing Div/HPC LQCD Group Loc: WH8E http://www.usqcd.org/fnal/ Fermi National Accelerator Lab; PO Box 500 MS 120 Batavia, IL 60510-0500
