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Got something odd - the 'Software Updates' page is stuck on 'busy' ...?
I've checked from the command line and there are no updates waiting, so why would this happen and what can I do to clear it? - it suggests there's a 'variable' somewhere (lock file?) been left laying around.
Wednesday, April 01 2020, 10:16 AM
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    Wednesday, April 01 2020, 01:10 PM - #Permalink
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    This may be a hang up form a few weeks ago when we kept having to restart the proxy. Check if you have some running yum processes with:
    ps aux | grep yum | grep -v grep
    If you do have any, kill them. You should be able to do a:
    killall yum
    It may need a -9 switch as well. Alternatively just reboot.
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    Wednesday, April 01 2020, 01:28 PM - #Permalink
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    Found independently ... I did - 3 of them(!)

    Reboot wasn't working - I'd was the first thing I tried (a couple of times).
    Oddly, whilst the processes had yum running (sort of), they hadn't locked the repositories as a manual run worked and updated and number of items. It was the fact that it ran manually whilst still reporting busy was what had me head-scratching. Very strange. It was the only one of three server exhibiting the problem.
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    Wednesday, April 01 2020, 01:59 PM - #Permalink
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    3 of them is right. I think it happened when the proxy (mirrorlist.clearos.com) stopped responding and it would leave the processes hanging forever waiting for a response. I have asked if something can be done about the plugin to make failed requests non-blocking. There is a bit of a change going on and it is getting complicated. We would like to pension off mirrorlist, and, if you have the latest yum-marketplace-plugin you can manually, but for us to force it would cut off anyone who did not have the latest version or who was installing from iso. We can respin the 7.7 iso but it won't help anyone using an older iso.

    Shad is re-writing the other end on our servers to make it more resilient and so, that anyone who has updated can use the new method and have it fall back to mirrorlist.clearos.com for older versions of the plugin.
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