Did you do a ps -ef | grep yum? It tells you the pid. I wouldn't kill it. Let it finish its other work. If the pid isn't present, remove the pid-file and retry. If that fails, you have some serious troubleshooting to do tracing the process, googling the web for the error message, and other drill-down.
On Sep 3, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Glenn Poston <gposton1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any ideas??? > > On Friday, June 28, 2013 9:38:29 AM UTC-4, Glenn Poston wrote: > Running Amazon Linux (which is essentially Centos5.5). > > Anyone seen random yum errors like this one? I don't think it's necessarily > related to Puppet, but it randomly fails my puppet runs and I don't know how > to fix it. > > Jun 28 08:41:34 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: [Notice: > /Stage[main]/Zookeeper/Package[zookeeper]/ensure: created > Jun 28 08:41:34 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: [Notice: > /Stage[main]/Zookeeper/File[/var/lib/zookeeper/data]/ensure: created > Jun 28 08:41:34 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: [Notice: > /Stage[main]/Zookeeper/File[/var/lib/zookeeper/data/myid]/ensure: created > Jun 28 08:41:34 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: [Notice: > /Stage[main]/Yum_repo::Configs/File[/etc/yum.repos.d/inin-epel.repo]/ensure: > defined content as '{md5}b94171f63e31f07b8bd75444073e301c' > Jun 28 08:41:35 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: [Notice: > /Stage[main]/Zookeeper/File[/etc/zookeeper/zookeeper-env.sh]/content: content > changed '{md5}cd666c7520ce5279ddbc185512b0b177' to > '{md5}5cb59b25f5e7567d94ba14b06f6e7081' > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: [Error: Execution of > '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install daemonize' returned 1: Existing lock > /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 2502. > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: Another app is currently holding > the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: The other application is: yum > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: Memory : 40 M RSS (235 MB > VSZ) > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: Started: Fri Jun 28 08:41:33 > 2013 - 00:03 ago > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: State : Running, pid: 2502 > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: Error: database disk image is > malformed > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: [Error: > /Stage[main]/Mcollective/Package[daemonize]/ensure: change from absent to > present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install daemonize' > returned 1: Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid > 2502. > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: Another app is currently holding > the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: The other application is: yum > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: Memory : 40 M RSS (235 MB > VSZ) > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: Started: Fri Jun 28 08:41:33 > 2013 - 00:03 ago > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: State : Running, pid: 2502 > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: Error: database disk image is > malformed > Jun 28 08:41:38 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: [mNotice: > /Stage[main]/Zookeeper/File[/etc/zookeeper/zoo.cfg]/content: content changed > '{md5}5c543298c5572c3caf40a3d108309019' to > '{md5}31db609f6601a8a02561d411e98db12b' > Jun 28 08:41:39 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: [mNotice: > /Stage[main]/Puppet/File[/usr/local/bin/run_puppet.sh]/content: content > changed '{md5}4e9496313a0b4152c663defce5100af5' to > '{md5}49d78e473fa2202dea13e9b195e63575' > Jun 28 08:41:39 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: [mNotice: > /Stage[main]/Yum_repo::Configs/Exec[puppet_repo]/returns: executed > successfully > Jun 28 08:41:48 ip-10-159-65-145 run_puppet: [mNotice: > /Stage[main]/Mcollective::Common/Package[mcollective-package-agent]/ensure: > created > > The problem does not persist. Yum packages are installed by puppet before > and after the errors. A subsequent puppet run installs the previously > skipped packages fine. > > It's as if some background process creates a lock, while updating the yum DB, > but when the lock is released, the yum DB is still in a bad state > (momentarily). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.