[ATrpms-users] New problem with smart

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On 12/2/06, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
>
> I use smart (on FC5) and have had no system-incapacitating problems with
> it.  It does its job very well.  But during the past few weeks it has
> occasionally locked up at the end of the 'rebuilding cache' phase.  I
> have been able to get it working again by rebooting - maybe there are
> less traumatic ways.



Something like this

[cascavel:/usr/lib] ps -A | grep smart
 1967 ?        00:00:00 smartd
 4960 ?        00:00:11 smart

sudo kill -9 1967  4960

should be enough to kill smart, although I think this should only be done
as a last resource.

There were suggestions that the problem (which also affected other
> depsolvers) might be caused by yum repeatedly accessing the rpm
> database, and on one occasion I found apt-get was continuously active
> under anacron without my knowing about it.


The only explanation is because the lines in

/etc/sysconfig/check4updates

are not commented:

# Whom to send the report to
MAILADDR=root

# Comment the next line to suppress nighly smart update checks
#SMART=yes
# Comment the next line to suppress nighly apt update checks
#APT=yes
# Comment the next line to suppress nighly yum update checks
#YUM=yes



When I became aware of this suggestion I uninstalled both yum and apt.



None of them do anything unless they are called by you. For small updates, I
generally use only yum and I have never had any problem.

/Paulo Roma.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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