RHEL 5 createrepo hangs

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I've got a RHEL 5 server that I want to create a mirror repo on. I've specified a new file system mounted at /repos. I have run reposync -p /repos --repoid=rhel-x86_64-server-5 -l which completed OK.

I've then run createrepo -c /repos/.createreop_cache /repos which runs until around 17k items, then hangs. There are 20k items in total.

I can't find any logs to suggest what has happened, all I can see is that it is no longer processing anything…

I have not encountered this before but you shall try using strace and gdb to try and see what createrepo does while "hanging". — Florin Asăvoaie, Apr 23 '14 at 08:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 13 '14 at 15:57

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I've had the same problem when the /repo directory was on a NAS drive. As a work around, I moved everything to /tmp which is mounted on locally installed disk. createrepo then ran fine. After I moved the /tmp/repo contents back to the NAS drive.

answered Aug 13 '14 at 15:57

Rick

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RHEL 5 createrepo hangs

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