I use custom pkg repos and I occasionally run into this problem on all the servers. I think it might be caused by a cron task triggered by sysutils/webmin.
While the solution is simple, it causes a bit of a headache. Especially when the system becomes unresponsive and requires a hard reset.
What can be done to help this situation?
Base is the name of the custom pkg repository.
While the solution is simple, it causes a bit of a headache. Especially when the system becomes unresponsive and requires a hard reset.
What can be done to help this situation?
Code:
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root 30052 0.0 0.0 45420 0 - IW - 0:00.00 pkg upgrade
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root 30156 0.0 0.0 45420 0 - IW - 0:00.00 pkg upgrade
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root 30176 0.0 0.0 45420 0 - IW - 0:00.00 pkg upgrade
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root 30200 0.0 0.0 45420 0 - IW - 0:00.00 pkg upgrade
root 30202 0.0 0.0 45420 0 - WWL - 0:00.00 pkg upgrade
root 67637 0.0 0.0 10640 2224 2 RL+ 9:41PM 0:00.02 grep pkg
Code:
# ps auxww | grep pkg | wc -l
2361
pkill -f pkg
Base is the name of the custom pkg repository.
Code:
# pkg-static install -r Base -fy pkg
Updating Base repository catalogue...
Base repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
New version of pkg detected; it needs to be installed first.
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
pkg: 1.10.1 -> 1.10.2 [Base]
Number of packages to be upgraded: 1
3 MiB to be downloaded.
[1/1] Fetching pkg-1.10.2.txz: 100% 3 MiB 3.0MB/s 00:01
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/1] Upgrading pkg from 1.10.1 to 1.10.2...
Extracting pkg-1.10.2: 100%
Updating Base repository catalogue...
Base repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
pkg-1.10.2 [Base]
Number of packages to be reinstalled: 1
[1/1] Reinstalling pkg-1.10.2...
[1/1] Extracting pkg-1.10.2: 100%