Yum update failure

argamak

• May 12, 2014 23:14

I got the same error regarding yum: "fatal,Cannot upgrade because yum is locked (/var/run/yum.pid has existed for 10+ minutes)." After killing all yum processes I tried to run "yum update" and receive the following error: "Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 178, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 345, in doCommands self._getTs(needTsRemove) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 101, in _getTs self._getTsInfo(remove_only) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 112, in _getTsInfo pkgSack = self.pkgSack File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 662, in pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(), File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 502, in _getSacks self.repos.populateSack(which=repos) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 232, in populateSack self.doSetup() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 79, in doSetup self.ayum.plugins.run('postreposetup') File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 179, in run func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs)) File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py", line 181, in postreposetup_hook all_urls = FastestMirror(all_urls).get_mirrorlist() File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py", line 333, in get_mirrorlist self._poll_mirrors() File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py", line 376, in _poll_mirrors pollThread.start() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/threading.py", line 416, in start _start_new_thread(self.__bootstrap, ()) thread.error: can't start new thread"
Any clues? I'm using DNS only on this server. Version is 11.42.1 Build 12

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  cPanelMichael

  • May 13, 2014 14:30

  Hello :) Please check to see if the issue continues when updating with the fastestmirror plugin disabled. EX: yum update --disableplugin=fastestmirror
  If this works, you can change "enabled=1" to "enabled=0" in: /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf
  Thank you.

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