Bugzilla – Bug 132463
yast packagemanager checks for nfs shares whereas all nfs sources have been removed
Last modified: 2007-01-22 14:52:12 UTC
I have set up a nfs server on my files server for a specific need, as I couldn't use a SMB source as installation source (See also #132461). This time, I could add a new nfs installation source and update my packages. Next, I removed the nfs installation source from the list, and I stopped my NFS server. Whenever I relaunched yast2 packagemanager, I got a blank list with a watch mouse cursor. I have to start nfs server again to be unlocked. See the yast2 log in the following attachment.
Created attachment 56547 [details] y2log log with (1) nfs server down and (2) nfs server up test 1 : nfs server down. yast packamanger is locked during cache access (see around line 491) test 2 : nfs server up. yast packamanger cannot remove 15 packages from cache since it performs an access through read only nfs mount point.
Comment on attachment 56547 [details] y2log log with (1) nfs server down and (2) nfs server up for test2, see around line 954
I have a look myself in yast logs. I have to remount nfs share with read/write access option to get rid of this problem. This can be a workaround only if you can access yourself to the server or ask to the server admin. For security reasons, your server admin may refuse write access to the nfs shares. Then, you can't have access anymore to packagemanager.
Looks like there are two broken cache directories: /var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000002 /var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x0000000c Both do not conatin a DESCRIPTION/description file, thus they are not usable. But YaST fails to get rid of them. - YaST didn't mount the nfs share below /IS_CACHE_0x00000002/MEDIA. In fact it can't, bause the description file, which contains the URL is not present. It looks like some previous run failed to unmount IS_CACHE_0x00000002/MEDIA. And now YaST is not aware at all, that something is mounted there. It just tries to cleanup. Quite dangerous situation ;( [Gilles] If this persisits, please stop YaST and manually unmount var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000002/MEDIA. Then remove the IS_CACHE_0x00000002 directory.
Should not happen with libyzpp / 10.1.