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Bug 539563 - yum can hang forever over IPv6
Summary: yum can hang forever over IPv6
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 520189
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Seth Vidal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-20 15:32 UTC by Wolfgang Rupprecht
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:12 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-12-22 19:29:10 UTC
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Description Wolfgang Rupprecht 2009-11-20 15:32:22 UTC 
Description of problem:
yum over ipv6 hangs regularly and will stay hung for over 9 hours.  It needs a timeout badly. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ yum --version
3.2.25
  Installed: rpm-4.7.1-6.fc12.x86_64 at 2009-10-28 21:18
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2009-09-21 13:30
  Committed: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> at 2009-09-21 12:00

  Installed: yum-3.2.25-1.fc12.noarch at 2009-10-28 22:36
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2009-10-16 20:44
  Committed: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> at 2009-10-14 12:00

$ netstat -A inet6
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address             State      
getnameinfo failed
tcp       38      0 sonic-tun.wsrcc.com:52973   [UNKNOWN]:https             CLOSE_WAIT  
getnameinfo failed
tcp        0      0 sonic-tun.wsrcc.com:40378   [UNKNOWN]:http              ESTABLISHED 
getnameinfo failed
tcp       38      0 sonic-tun.wsrcc.com:56893   [UNKNOWN]:https             CLOSE_WAIT  
tcp        0      0 sonic-tun.wsrcc.com:58909   mirror.steadfast.net:http   ESTABLISHED 

$ netstat -A inet6 -n
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address             State      
tcp       38      0 2001:5a8:4:7d2::1:52973     2610:28:200:1::fed0:2:443   CLOSE_WAIT  
tcp        0      0 2001:5a8:4:7d2::1:40378     2001:18b8:1::beef:80        ESTABLISHED 
tcp       38      0 2001:5a8:4:7d2::1:56893     2610:28:200:1::fed0:2:443   CLOSE_WAIT  
tcp        0      0 2001:5a8:4:7d2::1:58909     2607:f128::3:80             ESTABLISHED 

Additionally, it looks like the mirrors are missing rDNS entries for their IPv6 addresses. 

How reproducible:
very.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  yum list
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
infinite hangs if one uses the wrong mirrors

Expected results:
dead of buggy mirrors should time out.

Additional info:
Comment 1 seth vidal 2009-11-20 16:14:19 UTC 
can you come by #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.org - some of the folks there who work on our ipv6 mirrorlist info would like to see if you can run a few tests to see where it is hanging up.
Comment 2 Wolfgang Rupprecht 2009-11-20 16:29:08 UTC 
I'll try to connect up on irc a bit later.  In the mean time, this may give some folks an idea what is happening.

Bug #536775 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=536775) is a wireshark trace of a similar hang.  The first packet from the mirror after the 3-way handshake is lost.  Things come to a grinding halt.  This particular hang was for 9 hours before I forcefully stopped it by killing yum.
Comment 3 Jason Merrill 2009-12-22 15:20:16 UTC 
I also find that ipv6 issues make yum very slow a lot of the time, though for me it usually only hangs for a few minutes sitting in SYN_SENT.
Comment 4 seth vidal 2009-12-22 19:29:10 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 548269 ***
Comment 5 Wolfgang Rupprecht 2009-12-22 22:40:06 UTC 
This is NOT really a duplicate of  548269.   As you can see from the trace, I have a valid and active IPv6 connection, yum simply hangs forever if the mirror stops sending.  Fixing this by needlessly disabling IPv6 would be a pretty heavy-handed fix.  All yum needs is a working timeout.

Of course someone could also look at the underlying IPv6 connectivity issue.  IPv6 works in general, but IPv6 to the Fedora mirrors seems problematic at best.
Comment 6 Kamil Dudka 2009-12-22 22:51:36 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 520189 ***
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