yum upgrade hangs on cleanup of initial-setup-0.3.9.12-1.el7.ppc64 with PPC64 hardware
Issue
- Using yum to do an update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 hangs during the cleanup of
initial-setup-0.3.9.12-1.el7.ppc64
.
Cleanup : initial-setup-0.3.9.12-1.el7.ppc64 804/1253
- A
ps
listing shows the following:
root 27360 13287 0 Mar19 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.RHYZAL 1
root 27424 27360 0 Mar19 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/bin/systemctl try-restart initial-setup-text.service
- Killing the stuck systemctl process will allow the cleanup to continue, but we want to know a resolution not to cause this hang.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 on PPC64
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