RE: [CentOS] yum: not updating kernel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2008 2:25 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] yum: not updating kernel Hi. I recently switched my CentOS kernel to 2.6.27, manually. Is there a way to take it off the list of possible yum updates? I want to handle kernel stuff myself. Edit /etc/yum.conf Below excerpt from `man yum.conf' exclude List of packages to exclude from updates or installs. This should be a space separated list. Shell globs using wildcards (eg. * and ?) are allowed. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum: not updating kernel
Anthony Kamau wrote: Hi. I recently switched my CentOS kernel to 2.6.27, manually. Is there a way to take it off the list of possible yum updates? I want to handle kernel stuff myself. Edit /etc/yum.conf Below excerpt from `man yum.conf' exclude List of packages to exclude from updates or installs. This should be a space separated list. Shell globs using wildcards (eg. * and ?) are allowed. Sorry, man, my bad for not reading the man page. No food pellet for me. :-( ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
I'll lookand see, doesn't hurt. Which repos did you have installed? -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Thu Feb 28 02:32:20 2008 Subject: RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 15:27 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: [big snip] I'd be interested in seeing a complete /var/log/yum.log file and the date of the last successful yum update. I have attached both yum.log files. Possible dates of interest are: Oct 10 09:14:15 Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 Oct 24 05:43:29 Updated: kernel-headers.i386 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 Dec 03 11:10:12 Updated: kernel-headers.i386 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 I wonder if you can find a culprit? -- Bob Taylor __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Bob Taylor wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:09 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: [snip] Would anaconda even allow C5 to install on such a class cpu? no ... and we have no i386 kernel ... no idea how that file got changed, but the only code to make it happen would be a pentium classic processor. C5 would just die, as there is not one. (c4 too) OK! Thanks Johnny. You just confirmed a bug here. Now I will, as time allows, see if I can discover why /etc/rpm/platform is incorrect. Since the file is in an rpm directory, shall I look at rpm? I promise *not* to begin another thread like this one! I'm a nice guy, really! This file (/etc/rpm/platform) is created by anaconda on install and is NOT owned by RPM or any other package. It is USED by rpm to determine your real arch where there are possibly multiple arches (based on your processor type). I[3,4,5,6]86 packages can coexist with each other in an i386 distro install, however you can not install an i386 package and another i[4,5,6]86 package with the same Name and Epoch-Version-Release (EVR) at the same time. On Red Hat based distros, /etc/rpm/platform is used to define the main arch where more than one (based on the processor) could be main. Also I[3,4,5,6]86 packages can exist in an x86_64 arch install and I[3,4,5,6]86 packages can exist in an ia64 arch install. These (x86_64 and ia64) are 64bit/32bit library (aka multilib) arches. They can have lib64 and lib directories and have both an i[3,4,5,6]86 package and an x86_64 (or ia64) package installed that have the same Name and EVR. Other examples of 32bit/64bit (multilib) arches are s390 and s390x, ppc and ppc64, and finally sparc and sparc64. In each of these you can have a 32bit (lib) and a 64bit (lib64) package of the same Name and EVR installed at the same time. So, on x86_64, you CAN have glibc.x86_64 and glibc.i686. On sparc, you CAN have glibc.sparc and glibc.sparc64 .. but on i386 you CAN NOT have glibc.i386 and glibc.i686. I can think of nothing that will (or should) change that file (/etc/rpm/platform) except running anaconda (the installer from a CentOS CD / DVD). If something does modify that file it is definitely a bug. Well, if you are BUILDING files with rpmbuild then sometimes on some of the multilib arches you might want to change /etc/rpm/platform to get specific results ... but that would be a controlled process and I know of no packages that do it automatically. Some of the links by Ross seem to indicate that unixODBC-devel might impact /etc/rpm/platform ... however the version i386 version in centos-5 does not seem to as I have installed it several times for testing and it did not change my /etc/rpm/platform. I have looked at several i386 machines, and all of them have an /etc/rpm/platform that is created on the install date, none of them have a file that has been modified. If we can nail down something that changed /etc/rpm/platform it would be good, as that file should never change. Thanks, Johnny Hughes signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 06:29 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: [snip] OK! Thanks Johnny. You just confirmed a bug here. Now I will, as time allows, see if I can discover why /etc/rpm/platform is incorrect. Since the file is in an rpm directory, shall I look at rpm? I promise *not* to begin another thread like this one! I'm a nice guy, really! This file (/etc/rpm/platform) is created by anaconda on install and is NOT owned by RPM or any other package. It is USED by rpm to determine your real arch where there are possibly multiple arches (based on your processor type). I[3,4,5,6]86 packages can coexist with each other in an i386 distro install, however you can not install an i386 package and another i[4,5,6]86 package with the same Name and Epoch-Version-Release (EVR) at the same time. On Red Hat based distros, /etc/rpm/platform is used to define the main arch where more than one (based on the processor) could be main. Also I[3,4,5,6]86 packages can exist in an x86_64 arch install and I[3,4,5,6]86 packages can exist in an ia64 arch install. These (x86_64 and ia64) are 64bit/32bit library (aka multilib) arches. They can have lib64 and lib directories and have both an i[3,4,5,6]86 package and an x86_64 (or ia64) package installed that have the same Name and EVR. Other examples of 32bit/64bit (multilib) arches are s390 and s390x, ppc and ppc64, and finally sparc and sparc64. In each of these you can have a 32bit (lib) and a 64bit (lib64) package of the same Name and EVR installed at the same time. So, on x86_64, you CAN have glibc.x86_64 and glibc.i686. On sparc, you CAN have glibc.sparc and glibc.sparc64 .. but on i386 you CAN NOT have glibc.i386 and glibc.i686. I can think of nothing that will (or should) change that file (/etc/rpm/platform) except running anaconda (the installer from a CentOS CD / DVD). If something does modify that file it is definitely a bug. Well, if you are BUILDING files with rpmbuild then sometimes on some of the multilib arches you might want to change /etc/rpm/platform to get specific results ... but that would be a controlled process and I know of no packages that do it automatically. Some of the links by Ross seem to indicate that unixODBC-devel might impact /etc/rpm/platform ... however the version i386 version in centos-5 does not seem to as I have installed it several times for testing and it did not change my /etc/rpm/platform. I have looked at several i386 machines, and all of them have an /etc/rpm/platform that is created on the install date, none of them have a file that has been modified. If we can nail down something that changed /etc/rpm/platform it would be good, as that file should never change. Thanks again Johnny for the info. The only non-rpm I recall installing was the cups *.tgs for my printer which I had to compile. :-( -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 06:29 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: If we can nail down something that changed /etc/rpm/platform it would be good, as that file should never change. Thanks again Johnny for the info. The only non-rpm I recall installing was the cups *.tgs for my printer which I had to compile. :-( -- Bob Taylor Uncle Bob, :-D I apologize in advance for asking this question but... Are you certain that you did not edit / touch the /etc/rpm/platform file yourself? Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Bob Taylor wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 06:29 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: [snip] OK! Thanks Johnny. You just confirmed a bug here. Now I will, as time allows, see if I can discover why /etc/rpm/platform is incorrect. Since the file is in an rpm directory, shall I look at rpm? I promise *not* to begin another thread like this one! I'm a nice guy, really! This file (/etc/rpm/platform) is created by anaconda on install and is NOT owned by RPM or any other package. It is USED by rpm to determine your real arch where there are possibly multiple arches (based on your processor type). I[3,4,5,6]86 packages can coexist with each other in an i386 distro install, however you can not install an i386 package and another i[4,5,6]86 package with the same Name and Epoch-Version-Release (EVR) at the same time. On Red Hat based distros, /etc/rpm/platform is used to define the main arch where more than one (based on the processor) could be main. Also I[3,4,5,6]86 packages can exist in an x86_64 arch install and I[3,4,5,6]86 packages can exist in an ia64 arch install. These (x86_64 and ia64) are 64bit/32bit library (aka multilib) arches. They can have lib64 and lib directories and have both an i[3,4,5,6]86 package and an x86_64 (or ia64) package installed that have the same Name and EVR. Other examples of 32bit/64bit (multilib) arches are s390 and s390x, ppc and ppc64, and finally sparc and sparc64. In each of these you can have a 32bit (lib) and a 64bit (lib64) package of the same Name and EVR installed at the same time. So, on x86_64, you CAN have glibc.x86_64 and glibc.i686. On sparc, you CAN have glibc.sparc and glibc.sparc64 .. but on i386 you CAN NOT have glibc.i386 and glibc.i686. I can think of nothing that will (or should) change that file (/etc/rpm/platform) except running anaconda (the installer from a CentOS CD / DVD). If something does modify that file it is definitely a bug. Well, if you are BUILDING files with rpmbuild then sometimes on some of the multilib arches you might want to change /etc/rpm/platform to get specific results ... but that would be a controlled process and I know of no packages that do it automatically. Some of the links by Ross seem to indicate that unixODBC-devel might impact /etc/rpm/platform ... however the version i386 version in centos-5 does not seem to as I have installed it several times for testing and it did not change my /etc/rpm/platform. I have looked at several i386 machines, and all of them have an /etc/rpm/platform that is created on the install date, none of them have a file that has been modified. If we can nail down something that changed /etc/rpm/platform it would be good, as that file should never change. Thanks again Johnny for the info. The only non-rpm I recall installing was the cups *.tgs for my printer which I had to compile. :-( I'd be interested in seeing a complete /var/log/yum.log file and the date of the last successful yum update. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Bob Taylor wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:44 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Bob Taylor wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:10 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
[snip]
Well, exactarch=0 might work around this from a yum
standpoint (as far
as downloading the updates), but if RPM is complaining this
is beyond
the control of yum. As someone else mentioned, taking a
look at your
~/.rpmmacros file would be interesting.
It was empty.
Also, could you post the output of:
rpm -q --queryformat
'%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' kernel
kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.i686
kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.i686
kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686
The last kernel was installed manually using --ignorearch.
Bob,
What's the output of,
# rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' rpm
rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386
The contents of,
# cat /etc/rpm/platform
i386-redhat-linux
And the output of,
# rpm --eval '%_arch'
i386
Also, did you re-install rpm by forcing an upgrade in place of rpm with,
I ran yum remove yum. I did not remove rpm nor did an rpm --force.
what happens if you edit /etc/rpm/platform and change it too:
i686-redhat-linux
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Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 22:46 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 00:19 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: [snip] uname -imp: i686 i686 i386 Don't know why the kernel says it's an i386. Kernel bug? Gateway purchase? i386 is the architecture, in there you have processor flavors which can be i386 (generic), i486, i586 and i686 tuned. C5 only carries the generic i386 (default compile options) and the i686 tuned binaries, i586 tuned binaries are no longer being supported after C4. What does this say my cpu is: vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 5 model name : Pentium II (Deschutes) [snip] The uname output is valid for your install, the question now is why rpm refuses to install valid architecture binaries on your system. So, my cpu is not an i686? a P-II should be. i686 is everything from the Pentium Pro onwards, including P-II, P-III, P4, core, and the various clones. it does NOT include the original Pentiums (p5 and p54) or 'pentium w/ MMX', those are i586. What is model : 5 above compared to p5? -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 22:46 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 00:19 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: [snip] uname -imp: i686 i686 i386 Don't know why the kernel says it's an i386. Kernel bug? Gateway purchase? i386 is the architecture, in there you have processor flavors which can be i386 (generic), i486, i586 and i686 tuned. C5 only carries the generic i386 (default compile options) and the i686 tuned binaries, i586 tuned binaries are no longer being supported after C4. What does this say my cpu is: vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 5 model name : Pentium II (Deschutes) [snip] The uname output is valid for your install, the question now is why rpm refuses to install valid architecture binaries on your system. So, my cpu is not an i686? a P-II should be. i686 is everything from the Pentium Pro onwards, including P-II, P-III, P4, core, and the various clones. it does NOT include the original Pentiums (p5 and p54) or 'pentium w/ MMX', those are i586. What is model : 5 above compared to p5? The model refers to Pentium II, the family '6' refers to i686, the stepping is the sub-version of Pentium II which for yours has the nick name Deschutes. Here is the cpu info of a more recent quad core Intel. processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3220 @ 2.40GHz stepping: 7 This model is 10 cpu designs ahead, but still part of the i686 family, of course these 10 designs do not show the separate Pentium/Xeon/Pro tree lineages. I think they gave up giving the steppings nick names a long long time ago. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 08:14 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: [snip] what happens if you edit /etc/rpm/platform and change it too: i686-redhat-linux Nothing. I downloaded the current rpm file this morning and ran rpm -Uvh --force /home/brtaylor/rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386.rpm. Rpm seems to behave oddly. I had downloaded the current kernel rpm and installed it with the command rpm -ivh --ignorearch [file] successfully. I can not remove it with the command rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13 but can if I add .el5 to the end it does. Before I deleted it I ran the command rpm -ql kernel and all three kernels rpm files were listed including the kernel rpm which rpm -e said wasn't installed. This doesn't make sense to me. I have done the following: rpm -Uvh --force /home/brtaylor/rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386.rpm edit /etc/rpm/platform to i686-redhat-linux rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 yum clean all yum upgrade kernel returned Installed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 Complete! It looks like the problem may be in rpm after 4.4.2-37. Before I go to the rpm people, I need to confer with Ray Van Dolson who says his is the same as mine and he has no problem updating kernels. After Ray and I resolve this issue, I will send a last email to the list hopefully ending this subject with the resolution to this problem. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:19:36AM -0800, Bob Taylor alleged: I can not remove it with the command rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13 but can if I add .el5 to the end it does. Before I deleted it I ran the That's correct. 53.1.13 is the not same as 53.1.13.el5. The version is 2.6.18 and the release is 53.1.13.el5. You can specify the version or version-release, but not different substrings. -- Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin University of Southern California Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html pgpGalSIbJl4z.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Here is the cpu info of a more recent quad core Intel. processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3220 @ 2.40GHz stepping: 7 This model is 10 cpu designs ahead, but still part of the i686 family, of course these 10 designs do not show the separate Pentium/Xeon/Pro tree lineages. I think they gave up giving the steppings nick names a long long time ago. indeed, Xeon further confuses things, this is simply a brand name for a 'Server' CPU. There have been Xeon's that were Pentium-III based, then Pentium-4 based, and now new ones like that are Core2Duo based. and, further confusing things, the Pentium-4 variants weren't really P6 core based, they had a completely different internal architecture known as NetBurst, but Intel decided not to give it a seperate family designation for who-knows-what reason.The newest Core based CPUs are in fact derived from the Pentium-M laptop processor, which in turn was based on a redesign of the P6 (Pentium-III) guts, discarding the Netburst architecture. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Bob Taylor wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 08:14 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: [snip] what happens if you edit /etc/rpm/platform and change it too: i686-redhat-linux Nothing. I downloaded the current rpm file this morning and ran rpm -Uvh --force /home/brtaylor/rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386.rpm. Rpm seems to behave oddly. I had downloaded the current kernel rpm and installed it with the command rpm -ivh --ignorearch [file] successfully. I can not remove it with the command rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13 but can if I add .el5 to the end it does. Before I deleted it I ran the command rpm -ql kernel and all three kernels rpm files were listed including the kernel rpm which rpm -e said wasn't installed. This doesn't make sense to me. I have done the following: rpm -Uvh --force /home/brtaylor/rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386.rpm edit /etc/rpm/platform to i686-redhat-linux rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 yum clean all yum upgrade kernel returned Installed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 Complete! It looks like the problem may be in rpm after 4.4.2-37. Before I go to the rpm people, I need to confer with Ray Van Dolson who says his is the same as mine and he has no problem updating kernels. After Ray and I resolve this issue, I will send a last email to the list hopefully ending this subject with the resolution to this problem. The problem was most likely the /etc/rpm/platform if it is i386 and not i686 then is will not allow i686 RPMS to be installed. That file should only be updated IF anaconda does an install or upgrade. It should only be i386 of it is installed on a pentium classic processor (or equivalent). That is the only cause of the incompatible arch. Nothing in centos except an install/upgrade via anaconda should ever tough that file, so once you change it, it should remain changed. Reboot a couple times and makes sure it (/etc/rpm/platform) stays the same. If it changes we need to figure out why. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Johnny Hughes wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 08:14 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: [snip] what happens if you edit /etc/rpm/platform and change it too: i686-redhat-linux Nothing. I downloaded the current rpm file this morning and ran rpm -Uvh --force /home/brtaylor/rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386.rpm. Rpm seems to behave oddly. I had downloaded the current kernel rpm and installed it with the command rpm -ivh --ignorearch [file] successfully. I can not remove it with the command rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13 but can if I add .el5 to the end it does. Before I deleted it I ran the command rpm -ql kernel and all three kernels rpm files were listed including the kernel rpm which rpm -e said wasn't installed. This doesn't make sense to me. I have done the following: rpm -Uvh --force /home/brtaylor/rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386.rpm edit /etc/rpm/platform to i686-redhat-linux rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 yum clean all yum upgrade kernel returned Installed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 Complete! It looks like the problem may be in rpm after 4.4.2-37. Before I go to the rpm people, I need to confer with Ray Van Dolson who says his is the same as mine and he has no problem updating kernels. After Ray and I resolve this issue, I will send a last email to the list hopefully ending this subject with the resolution to this problem. The problem was most likely the /etc/rpm/platform if it is i386 and not i686 then is will not allow i686 RPMS to be installed. That file should only be updated IF anaconda does an install or upgrade. Good to note, I was under the impression that it might be set in the initrd in case a different kernel image is installed. It should only be i386 of it is installed on a pentium classic processor (or equivalent). Would anaconda even allow C5 to install on such a class cpu? That is the only cause of the incompatible arch. Nothing in centos except an install/upgrade via anaconda should ever tough that file, so once you change it, it should remain changed. Reboot a couple times and makes sure it (/etc/rpm/platform) stays the same. If it changes we need to figure out why. I think there may be a case or two of bad packages updating that file I believe these are some dumb Mozilla plugins though, googling got me these: http://dnmouse.webs.com/playdvdsmore.htm and here: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ The OP had a lot of kitchen sinks installed maybe a broken plugin was the cause of all that grief. Probably right around the time he installed that repo and things stopped working. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 08:14 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: [snip] what happens if you edit /etc/rpm/platform and change it too: i686-redhat-linux Nothing. snip The problem was most likely the /etc/rpm/platform if it is i386 and not i686 then is will not allow i686 RPMS to be installed. That file should only be updated IF anaconda does an install or upgrade. Good to note, I was under the impression that it might be set in the initrd in case a different kernel image is installed. It should only be i386 of it is installed on a pentium classic processor (or equivalent). Would anaconda even allow C5 to install on such a class cpu? no ... and we have no i386 kernel ... no idea how that file got changed, but the only code to make it happen would be a pentium classic processor. C5 would just die, as there is not one. (c4 too) That is the only cause of the incompatible arch. Nothing in centos except an install/upgrade via anaconda should ever tough that file, so once you change it, it should remain changed. Reboot a couple times and makes sure it (/etc/rpm/platform) stays the same. If it changes we need to figure out why. I think there may be a case or two of bad packages updating that file I believe these are some dumb Mozilla plugins though, googling got me these: http://dnmouse.webs.com/playdvdsmore.htm and here: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ The OP had a lot of kitchen sinks installed maybe a broken plugin was the cause of all that grief. Probably right around the time he installed that repo and things stopped working. In both cases it seems that unixODBC-devel.i386 is the thing that possibly makes /etc/rpm/paltform angry. Let me research that. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Johnny Hughes wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 08:14 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: [snip] what happens if you edit /etc/rpm/platform and change it too: i686-redhat-linux Nothing. snip The problem was most likely the /etc/rpm/platform if it is i386 and not i686 then is will not allow i686 RPMS to be installed. That file should only be updated IF anaconda does an install or upgrade. Good to note, I was under the impression that it might be set in the initrd in case a different kernel image is installed. It should only be i386 of it is installed on a pentium classic processor (or equivalent). Would anaconda even allow C5 to install on such a class cpu? no ... and we have no i386 kernel ... no idea how that file got changed, but the only code to make it happen would be a pentium classic processor. C5 would just die, as there is not one. (c4 too) That is the only cause of the incompatible arch. Nothing in centos except an install/upgrade via anaconda should ever tough that file, so once you change it, it should remain changed. Reboot a couple times and makes sure it (/etc/rpm/platform) stays the same. If it changes we need to figure out why. I think there may be a case or two of bad packages updating that file I believe these are some dumb Mozilla plugins though, googling got me these: http://dnmouse.webs.com/playdvdsmore.htm and here: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ The OP had a lot of kitchen sinks installed maybe a broken plugin was the cause of all that grief. Probably right around the time he installed that repo and things stopped working. In both cases it seems that unixODBC-devel.i386 is the thing that possibly makes /etc/rpm/paltform angry. Let me research that. I did a quick test and adding unixODBC-devel did nothing to my platform file on both Intel and AMD, so maybe it had a problem in the past and now it has become an urban legend. Maybe some other third party repo package mangled it. The OP's yum log should show what packages were installed when, so just need to trace it back to when it stopped working and look at what packages were installed and from where and test them out. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:22 -0800, Garrick Staples wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:19:36AM -0800, Bob Taylor alleged: I can not remove it with the command rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13 but can if I add .el5 to the end it does. Before I deleted it I ran the That's correct. 53.1.13 is the not same as 53.1.13.el5. The version is 2.6.18 and the release is 53.1.13.el5. You can specify the version or version-release, but not different substrings. Ah! Mystery resolved. Thanks! -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:51 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: [snip] It looks like the problem may be in rpm after 4.4.2-37. Before I go to the rpm people, I need to confer with Ray Van Dolson who says his is the same as mine and he has no problem updating kernels. After Ray and I resolve this issue, I will send a last email to the list hopefully ending this subject with the resolution to this problem. Bob, so it appears the above did work? It did. I don't recall what exactly I said was the same on my system as yours... but, my /etc/rpm/platform is: Mine reports the same as yours and I have no problem updating kernels. I believe this was in reference to uname -imp which mine results in i686 i686 i386 Notice the processor. By all accounts it should be i686. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:09 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: [snip] Would anaconda even allow C5 to install on such a class cpu? no ... and we have no i386 kernel ... no idea how that file got changed, but the only code to make it happen would be a pentium classic processor. C5 would just die, as there is not one. (c4 too) OK! Thanks Johnny. You just confirmed a bug here. Now I will, as time allows, see if I can discover why /etc/rpm/platform is incorrect. Since the file is in an rpm directory, shall I look at rpm? I promise *not* to begin another thread like this one! I'm a nice guy, really! -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 15:27 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: [snip] I think there may be a case or two of bad packages updating that file I believe these are some dumb Mozilla plugins though, googling got me these: http://dnmouse.webs.com/playdvdsmore.htm and here: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ The OP had a lot of kitchen sinks installed maybe a broken plugin was the cause of all that grief. Probably right around the time he installed that repo and things stopped working. I presume this comment is in regards to the above references? -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 22:55 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: [snip] Mine reports the same as yours and I have no problem updating kernels. Sigh! So I have the same problem with rpm? It rejects installing an i686 rpm. [snip] Something is missing. It's probably something very simple. I still think you should let someone log in as root into your box and figure it out for you. :) I would love this. However I don't know what my IP is nor how to find out. It's been too long and too much has changed. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Something is missing. It's probably something very simple. I still think you should let someone log in as root into your box and figure it out for you. :) I would love this. However I don't know what my IP is nor how to find out. It's been too long and too much has changed. Seriously? ifconfig will tell you your IP address. Or just go to www.whatsmyip.org or some similar site... Or, just reinstall :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Something is missing. It's probably something very simple. I still think you should let someone log in as root into your box and figure it out for you. :) That was the dumbest piece of advice so far. Get a sense of humor. Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 00:19 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: I would love this. However I don't know what my IP is nor how to find out. It's been too long and too much has changed. Seriously? ifconfig will tell you your IP address. Or just go to www.whatsmyip.org or some similar site... Wow! Thanks Ray Or, just reinstall :) I *do* have a sense of humor. :-) Bob, Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread. Can you include the output of these commands: # cat /etc/redhat-release # yum list installed '*yum*' # cat /etc/yum.conf # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo From these we should be able to determine if your base installation is correct. If it isn't a config problem then we can look at permissions and network next. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:41 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: [snip] Bob, Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread. I agree totally! The problem is with rpm. It refuses to install a non i386 rpm. I have verified this by downloading the latest kernel rpm. I had to use --ignorearch flag to get rpm to install it. Now how do I get this flag to yum? I have exactarch=0 in /etc/yum.conf which I presumed was to fix this. It does not work. I have tried to pass this flag via /root/.rpmmacros with no help. So, why do only myself apparently have this problem? One other item. I made *no* changes to any yum files after installation except the addition of (maybe) rpmforge. One kernel was updated around this time. My guess is the problem started around the update to 5.1. Anybody have any input as to why at least one person does not have this problem? What could he have that is different from me regarding yum and rpm? Reading this I apologize for the ramble. Oct 10 09:14:15 Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 Last kernel update. A lot of activity Oct 12-15. Possible 5.1 update during this period. Can you include the output of these commands: # cat /etc/redhat-release # yum list installed '*yum*' # cat /etc/yum.conf # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo I removed yum and reinstalled then yum update yum with no help. No sense to include these again here. From these we should be able to determine if your base installation is correct. It is *not* a yum config problem. If it isn't a config problem then we can look at permissions and network next. See above. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Bob: I agree totally! The problem is with rpm. It refuses to install a non i386 rpm. What are the contents of the ~/.rpmmacros file (for root)? Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Monday 25 February 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread. Good initiative, but since the layer beneath also fails (rpm) maybe we should start there. rpm -qi kernel or maybe bad stuff in /etc/sysconfig kernel. The interesting error from RPM suggests that it thinks the machine is an i586 (or atleast not i686). /Peter Can you include the output of these commands: # cat /etc/redhat-release # yum list installed '*yum*' # cat /etc/yum.conf # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:41 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: [snip] Bob, Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread. I agree totally! The problem is with rpm. It refuses to install a non i386 rpm. I have verified this by downloading the latest kernel rpm. I If rpm is broken, why not try to upgrade rpm on top of itself? rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.rpm You will need to manually download the rpm package again. had to use --ignorearch flag to get rpm to install it. Now how do I get this flag to yum? I have exactarch=0 in /etc/yum.conf which I presumed was to fix this. It does not work. I have tried to pass this flag via /root/.rpmmacros with no help. So, why do only myself apparently have this problem? One other item. I made *no* changes to any yum files after installation except the addition of (maybe) rpmforge. One kernel was updated around this time. My guess is the problem started around the update to 5.1. Anybody have any input as to why at least one person does not have this problem? What could he have that is different from me regarding yum and rpm? Reading this I apologize for the ramble. Bob, I wouldn't muck with any more options, try to undo the changes you have made. I didn't see what the rpm error was you got when you tried to install it, did you post it to the thread? You said you re-installed yum, how did you remove yum? If you did a rpm -e yum, then the yum plugins may have still been left behind. Here is the list you provided earlier: yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5 yum-cron-0.6-1.el5.centos yum-downloadonly-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yumex-2.0.3-2.el5.centos yum-fastestmirror-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.fc6 yum-priorities-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yum-repolist-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yum-skip-broken-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yum-updatesd-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5 yum-utils-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yum-versionlock-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 Here are the yum and plugins I have installed: yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5 yum-changelog-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.fc6 yum-priorities-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yum-updatesd-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5 Besides 'yum-fastestmirror' I would make sure the others are removed and their configs cleared out from /etc/yum/pluginconf.d unless you know you have a real need for any of them. The yum plugin that catches my attention is 'yum-versionlock' Oct 10 09:14:15 Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 Last kernel update. A lot of activity Oct 12-15. Possible 5.1 update during this period. Can you include the output of these commands: # cat /etc/redhat-release # yum list installed '*yum*' # cat /etc/yum.conf # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo I removed yum and reinstalled then yum update yum with no help. No sense to include these again here. From these we should be able to determine if your base installation is correct. It is *not* a yum config problem. Can you post the rpm error you got before? If it isn't a config problem then we can look at permissions and network next. See above. __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
John R Pierce wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Monday 25 February 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread. Good initiative, but since the layer beneath also fails (rpm) maybe we should start there. rpm -qi kernel or maybe bad stuff in /etc/sysconfig kernel. The interesting error from RPM suggests that it thinks the machine is an i586 (or atleast not i686). indeed, lets add $ cat /proc/cpuinfo to the possibly interesting info to post here... Sure, C5 kernels only come in the i686 or x86_64 variety. Maybe the OP's rpm thinks it's on x86_64? 'package kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 is intended for a i686 architecture' is the kind of error one would see when installing i386 on x86_64, the kernel rpm file has a list of unsupported architectures and it will spit out this error when installing i386 on x86_64. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:02 -0500, Alfred von Campe wrote: Bob: I agree totally! The problem is with rpm. It refuses to install a non i386 rpm. What are the contents of the ~/.rpmmacros file (for root)? Empty -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:10 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
[snip]
Well, exactarch=0 might work around this from a yum standpoint (as far
as downloading the updates), but if RPM is complaining this is beyond
the control of yum. As someone else mentioned, taking a look at your
~/.rpmmacros file would be interesting.
It was empty.
Also, could you post the output of:
rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' kernel
kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.i686
kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.i686
kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686
The last kernel was installed manually using --ignorearch.
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On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:19 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Monday 25 February 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread. Good initiative, but since the layer beneath also fails (rpm) maybe we should start there. rpm -qi kernel or maybe bad stuff in /etc/sysconfig kernel. The interesting error from RPM suggests that it thinks the machine is an i586 (or atleast not i686). indeed, lets add $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 5 model name : Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping: 1 cpu MHz : 398.296 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr up bogomips: 797.12 -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Bob Taylor wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:10 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
[snip]
Well, exactarch=0 might work around this from a yum
standpoint (as far
as downloading the updates), but if RPM is complaining this
is beyond
the control of yum. As someone else mentioned, taking a
look at your
~/.rpmmacros file would be interesting.
It was empty.
Also, could you post the output of:
rpm -q --queryformat
'%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' kernel
kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.i686
kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.i686
kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686
The last kernel was installed manually using --ignorearch.
Bob,
What's the output of,
# rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' rpm
The contents of,
# cat /etc/rpm/platform
And the output of,
# rpm --eval '%_arch'
Also, did you re-install rpm by forcing an upgrade in place of rpm with,
# rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386.rpm
Just some more things to try,
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On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:34 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:41 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: [snip] Bob, Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread. I agree totally! The problem is with rpm. It refuses to install a non i386 rpm. I have verified this by downloading the latest kernel rpm. I If rpm is broken, why not try to upgrade rpm on top of itself? rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.rpm You will need to manually download the rpm package again. had to use --ignorearch flag to get rpm to install it. Now how do I get this flag to yum? I have exactarch=0 in /etc/yum.conf which I presumed was to fix this. It does not work. I have tried to pass this flag via /root/.rpmmacros with no help. So, why do only myself apparently have this problem? One other item. I made *no* changes to any yum files after installation except the addition of (maybe) rpmforge. One kernel was updated around this time. My guess is the problem started around the update to 5.1. Anybody have any input as to why at least one person does not have this problem? What could he have that is different from me regarding yum and rpm? Reading this I apologize for the ramble. Bob, I wouldn't muck with any more options, try to undo the changes you have made. Didn't make any except possibly rpmforge.repo. I didn't see what the rpm error was you got when you tried to install it, did you post it to the thread? You said you re-installed yum, how did you remove yum? yum remove yum Installed yum from my installation CD, ran yum update yum with no change. If you did a rpm -e yum, then the yum plugins may have still been left behind. Here is the list you provided earlier: None. [snip] The yum plugin that catches my attention is 'yum-versionlock' enabled=0 -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 21:22 +0100, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Monday 25 February 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread. Good initiative, but since the layer beneath also fails (rpm) maybe we should start there. rpm -qi kernel or maybe bad stuff in /etc/sysconfig kernel. Where I am confused is the original kernel and ONE update is in the /var/log/yum.log then nada. I seem to recall a discussion many months ago regarding an i686 kernel being installed from an i386 directory. If you look at http://isodirect.centos.org/centos/5/updates you will not see an i686 directory, just i386 and ia-64. All rpms in the i386 directory are i386 except the kernels and very few others. /etc/sysconfig/kernel: # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make # new kernels the default UPDATEDEFAULT=yes # DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel The interesting error from RPM suggests that it thinks the machine is an i586 (or atleast not i686). uname -imp: i686 i686 i386 Don't know why the kernel says it's an i386. Kernel bug? Gateway purchase? -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:44 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Bob Taylor wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:10 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
[snip]
Well, exactarch=0 might work around this from a yum
standpoint (as far
as downloading the updates), but if RPM is complaining this
is beyond
the control of yum. As someone else mentioned, taking a
look at your
~/.rpmmacros file would be interesting.
It was empty.
Also, could you post the output of:
rpm -q --queryformat
'%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' kernel
kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.i686
kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.i686
kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686
The last kernel was installed manually using --ignorearch.
Bob,
What's the output of,
# rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' rpm
rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386
The contents of,
# cat /etc/rpm/platform
i386-redhat-linux
And the output of,
# rpm --eval '%_arch'
i386
Also, did you re-install rpm by forcing an upgrade in place of rpm with,
I ran yum remove yum. I did not remove rpm nor did an rpm --force.
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RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 21:22 +0100, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Monday 25 February 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread. Good initiative, but since the layer beneath also fails (rpm) maybe we should start there. rpm -qi kernel or maybe bad stuff in /etc/sysconfig kernel. Where I am confused is the original kernel and ONE update is in the /var/log/yum.log then nada. I seem to recall a discussion many months ago regarding an i686 kernel being installed from an i386 directory. If you look at http://isodirect.centos.org/centos/5/updates you will not see an i686 directory, just i386 and ia-64. All rpms in the i386 directory are i386 except the kernels and very few others. /etc/sysconfig/kernel: # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make # new kernels the default UPDATEDEFAULT=yes # DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel The interesting error from RPM suggests that it thinks the machine is an i586 (or atleast not i686). uname -imp: i686 i686 i386 Don't know why the kernel says it's an i386. Kernel bug? Gateway purchase? i386 is the architecture, in there you have processor flavors which can be i386 (generic), i486, i586 and i686 tuned. C5 only carries the generic i386 (default compile options) and the i686 tuned binaries, i586 tuned binaries are no longer being supported after C4. Currently C5 only supports i386 and x86_64 architectures. They are working on ia64 and ppc, maybe sparc too. The uname output is valid for your install, the question now is why rpm refuses to install valid architecture binaries on your system. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Bob Taylor wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:44 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Bob Taylor wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 12:10 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
[snip]
Well, exactarch=0 might work around this from a yum
standpoint (as far
as downloading the updates), but if RPM is complaining this
is beyond
the control of yum. As someone else mentioned, taking a
look at your
~/.rpmmacros file would be interesting.
It was empty.
Also, could you post the output of:
rpm -q --queryformat
'%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' kernel
kernel-2.6.18-8.el5.i686
kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.i686
kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686
The last kernel was installed manually using --ignorearch.
Bob,
What's the output of,
# rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' rpm
rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386
Good
The contents of,
# cat /etc/rpm/platform
i386-redhat-linux
Good
And the output of,
# rpm --eval '%_arch'
i386
Good
Also, did you re-install rpm by forcing an upgrade in place
of rpm with,
I ran yum remove yum. I did not remove rpm nor did an rpm --force.
Don't remove rpm, just run an 'rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.4.2-47.el5.i386.rpm'
this should replace any configs/macros that might have been damaged.
Outside of that, I dunno, I would probably do an rpm audit for all
packages that have changed files and re-install those packages on top
of themselves, making sure to move all the '*.rpmnew' on top of the
existing files. Then verify your Internet connection works properly
with yum (are you behind a proxy server?), and see what that does.
-Ross
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Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:25:32AM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker alleged: Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:44 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: The contents of, # cat /etc/rpm/platform i386-redhat-linux Good Isn't that the problem? All of my machines say i686, athlon, ia32e, x86_64, etc. None of them say i386. -- Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin University of Southern California Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html pgp2Q26GX1Byn.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Garrick Staples wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:25:32AM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker alleged: Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:44 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: The contents of, # cat /etc/rpm/platform i386-redhat-linux Good Isn't that the problem? All of my machines say i686, athlon, ia32e, x86_64, etc. None of them say i386. Ooops, I saw i686 when I looked the first time, yes, this should be i686-redhat-linux. Good catch. Bob, can you try manually changing this to say i686-redhat-linux, I believe this is auto-generated at boot so it isn't a permanent fix, but lets see if it updates after this by booting into the older kernel (may need to manually change this file again), removing the newer kernel and then try a 'yum update'. -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Garrick Staples wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:25:32AM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker alleged: Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:44 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: The contents of, # cat /etc/rpm/platform i386-redhat-linux Good Isn't that the problem? All of my machines say i686, athlon, ia32e, x86_64, etc. None of them say i386. yeah. # cat /etc/rpm/platform i686-redhat-linux # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping: 6 cpu MHz : 807.984 ... (oldest thing I've put C5 on) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 00:43 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Garrick Staples wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:25:32AM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker alleged: Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:44 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: The contents of, # cat /etc/rpm/platform i386-redhat-linux Good Isn't that the problem? All of my machines say i686, athlon, ia32e, x86_64, etc. None of them say i386. Ooops, I saw i686 when I looked the first time, yes, this should be i686-redhat-linux. Good catch. Bob, can you try manually changing this to say i686-redhat-linux, I believe this is auto-generated at boot so it isn't a permanent fix, but lets see if it updates after this by booting into the older kernel (may need to manually change this file again), removing the newer kernel and then try a 'yum update'. Will try this tomorrow. rpm won't let me remove the kernel it installed. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 00:19 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: [snip] uname -imp: i686 i686 i386 Don't know why the kernel says it's an i386. Kernel bug? Gateway purchase? i386 is the architecture, in there you have processor flavors which can be i386 (generic), i486, i586 and i686 tuned. C5 only carries the generic i386 (default compile options) and the i686 tuned binaries, i586 tuned binaries are no longer being supported after C4. What does this say my cpu is: vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 5 model name : Pentium II (Deschutes) [snip] The uname output is valid for your install, the question now is why rpm refuses to install valid architecture binaries on your system. So, my cpu is not an i686? -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 00:25 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: [snip] Then verify your Internet connection works properly with yum (are you behind a proxy server?), and see what that does. Dunno about proxy server. I'm behind an HughesNet satellite modem. Most likely that thingy that changes your IP periodically (my database retrieval program is totally busted!). :-) -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Bob Taylor wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 00:19 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: [snip] uname -imp: i686 i686 i386 Don't know why the kernel says it's an i386. Kernel bug? Gateway purchase? i386 is the architecture, in there you have processor flavors which can be i386 (generic), i486, i586 and i686 tuned. C5 only carries the generic i386 (default compile options) and the i686 tuned binaries, i586 tuned binaries are no longer being supported after C4. What does this say my cpu is: vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 5 model name : Pentium II (Deschutes) [snip] The uname output is valid for your install, the question now is why rpm refuses to install valid architecture binaries on your system. So, my cpu is not an i686? a P-II should be. i686 is everything from the Pentium Pro onwards, including P-II, P-III, P4, core, and the various clones. it does NOT include the original Pentiums (p5 and p54) or 'pentium w/ MMX', those are i586. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:54 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: * Remove ALL plugins * Disable ALL third party repo's. * Do a yum clean all * Revert to the default CentOS .repo files * Revert to default yum.conf file If it works in this configuration, you can start adding things back one at a time. I reached the same conclusion Saturday myself. I yum remove yum and reinstalled yum pirut from my installation CD. The yum refused to update the kernel. I gave up on yum and downloaded the current kernel rpm. I rpm -i kernel* and received the following error message from rpm: package kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 is intended for a i686 architecture There is my problem! uname -ipm results in i686 i686 i386. It looks like yum is looking at uname -i. Maybe you've already tried this, I don't know. It's been a long thread. :) I agree. Waaay to long. Now what do the experts have to say about this? All packages *except* the kernel files are i386. I want to end this, please? -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
I reached the same conclusion Saturday myself. I yum remove yum and reinstalled yum pirut from my installation CD. The yum refused to update the kernel. I gave up on yum and downloaded the current kernel rpm. I rpm -i kernel* and received the following error message from rpm: package kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 is intended for a i686 architecture There is my problem! uname -ipm results in i686 i686 i386. It looks like yum is looking at uname -i. Mine reports the same as yours and I have no problem updating kernels. Maybe you've already tried this, I don't know. It's been a long thread. :) I agree. Waaay to long. Now what do the experts have to say about this? All packages *except* the kernel files are i386. I want to end this, please? Something is missing. It's probably something very simple. I still think you should let someone log in as root into your box and figure it out for you. :) Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Monday 25 February 2008, Ray Van Dolson wrote: I reached the same conclusion Saturday myself. I yum remove yum and reinstalled yum pirut from my installation CD. The yum refused to update the kernel. I gave up on yum and downloaded the current kernel rpm. I rpm -i kernel* and received the following error message from rpm: package kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 is intended for a i686 architecture This is a very good clue, even rpm dislikes the concept of upgrading (installing) your kernel. :-). Was this an error message (package was not installed) or a warning (package was installed), check with rpm -q kernel. ... I agree. Waaay to long. Now what do the experts have to say about this? All packages *except* the kernel files are i386. I want to end this, please? Something is missing. It's probably something very simple. I still think you should let someone log in as root into your box and figure it out for you. :) That was the dumbest piece of advice so far. /Peter signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Bob Taylor wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 19:56 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:37 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:41 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip snip [snip] Priority *and* protect? Supposed to be a no-no. Worse, it's on the updates too. I would carefully examine all your repo defs and have *either* protect or priority, but not both. Also make sure the settings are appropriate sionce you've add some other repos. Thanks for your response, Bill. I added the protect lines attempting to locate this problem. I've removed all protect lines. I've been using Rpmforge for a long time, NP. But at the time I established priorities, I disabled all protect settings. And there are a couple exclude and include setups for a few special instances. Mind telling me what these are? protect=N is part of the protectbase plugin. You do not want to install the protectbase and priorities plugins on the same machine. Looking at your output of yum-\* you do not seem to have yum-protectbase installed, so the settings by themselves should not matter. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Bob Taylor wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 18:25 -0700, Shad L. Lords wrote: I misspoke. Yum installed kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14 October 13, 2007 according to yum.log. So, yum appears to have worked *once* updating the kernel. Looking in CentOS vault, I saw .15 which gives me a time frame for what it's worth. All I did was add rpmforge. I have removed it with no help. I will post any file related to this mystery when requested. What does the following command produce on your system? yum --noplugins --disable '*' --enable updates list 'kernel*' yum --noplugins --disable '*' --enable updates list 'kernel*' Setting up repositories updates 100% |=| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Installed Packages kernel.i686 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 installed kernel.i686 2.6.18-8.el5 installed kernel-headers.i386 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.cen installed Available Packages kernel-doc.noarch2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 updates kernel-headers.i386 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 updates based on this output ... somehow your kernel is excluded in update set, even though it sees kernel-doc.noarch and kernel-headers.i386. This leads me to believe that there is a exclude=kernel somewhere in a config file: please check /etc/yum.conf again signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 23:45 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 19:56 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:37 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:41 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip snip [snip] Priority *and* protect? Supposed to be a no-no. Worse, it's on the updates too. I would carefully examine all your repo defs and have *either* protect or priority, but not both. Also make sure the settings are appropriate sionce you've add some other repos. Thanks for your response, Bill. I added the protect lines attempting to locate this problem. I've removed all protect lines. I've been using Rpmforge for a long time, NP. But at the time I established priorities, I disabled all protect settings. And there are a couple exclude and include setups for a few special instances. Mind telling me what these are? S/B nothing of interest, but here's a condensed version. == Useless/uninteresting lines snipped = [rpmforge] name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/mirrors-rpmforge enabled = 1 gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag gpgcheck = 1 # NEXT LINE WRAPPED - CAREFUL protect=0 priority=10 includepkgs=bittorrent.noarch, bittorrent- gui.noarch, python-khashmir.noarch, python-crypto.i386 rtorrent, libtorrent.i386, libtorrent-devel.i386, libsigc*, mplayer.i386, mplayer- docs.i386, mplayer-fonts.noarch, mplayerplug-in.i386, aalib.i386, faac.i386, lame.i386, libXvMCW.i386, libdvdnav.i386, libmad.i386, libmpcdec.i386, lirc.i386, lzo.i386, openal.i386, x264.i386, xvidcore.i386, libmp4v2.i386 gkrellm.i386 # mplayer-skins.noarch, == Some of the above may not be appropriate any more - I've not looked in awhile. -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 03:47 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: [snip] based on this output ... somehow your kernel is excluded in update set, even though it sees kernel-doc.noarch and kernel-headers.i386. This leads me to believe that there is a exclude=kernel somewhere in a config file: I just read man yum.conf again and I see this: installonlypkgs List of packages that should only ever be installed, never updated. Kernels in particular fall into this category. Defaults to ‘kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enterprise, kernel-debug, kernel-unsupported’. What I missed is never updated. If this is my problem, how do I fix it? please check /etc/yum.conf again No exclude in any config file. Thanks again! -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
installonlypkgs List of packages that should only ever be installed, never updated. Kernels in particular fall into this category. Defaults to ‘kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enterprise, kernel-debug, kernel-unsupported’. What I missed is never updated. If this is my problem, how do I fix it? This just means that the newer kernels will be installed instead of replacing the old kernels packages. It doesn't mean that newer kernels will not be installed at all. Sheesh, I thought you got your update issues sorted out a long time ago. :) Just give someone from this list root on your box already so we can see this for ourselves. :) Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Ray Van Dolson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: installonlypkgs List of packages that should only ever be installed, never updated. Kernels in particular fall into this category. Defaults to 'kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enterprise, kernel-debug, kernel-unsupported'. What I missed is never updated. If this is my problem, how do I fix it? This just means that the newer kernels will be installed instead of replacing the old kernels packages. It doesn't mean that newer kernels will not be installed at all. Sheesh, I thought you got your update issues sorted out a long time ago. :) Just give someone from this list root on your box already so we can see this for ourselves. :) Yes, that seems to be the best solution at this point. You can definitely trust Johnny Hughes if you ask who that someone should be. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 06:25 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 23:45 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: [snip] == Useless/uninteresting lines snipped = [rpmforge] name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/mirrors-rpmforge enabled = 1 gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag gpgcheck = 1 # NEXT LINE WRAPPED - CAREFUL protect=0 priority=10 includepkgs=bittorrent.noarch, bittorrent- gui.noarch, python-khashmir.noarch, python-crypto.i386 rtorrent, libtorrent.i386, libtorrent-devel.i386, libsigc*, mplayer.i386, mplayer- docs.i386, mplayer-fonts.noarch, mplayerplug-in.i386, aalib.i386, faac.i386, lame.i386, libXvMCW.i386, libdvdnav.i386, libmad.i386, libmpcdec.i386, lirc.i386, lzo.i386, openal.i386, x264.i386, xvidcore.i386, libmp4v2.i386 gkrellm.i386 # mplayer-skins.noarch, == Some of the above may not be appropriate any more - I've not looked in awhile. Someone just said *not* to use protect and priority together. Red Hat has a propensity to remove any documentation on a package that does not have a man page. Sometimes it's included in /usr/share/doc and sometimes in /usr/lib and sometimes it's just not there. There is, hopefully *some* documentation on plugins other than how to write one. I would like to know *what* plugins actually *do*. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Someone just said *not* to use protect and priority together. Red Hat has a propensity to remove any documentation on a package that does not have a man page. Sometimes it's included in /usr/share/doc and sometimes in /usr/lib and sometimes it's just not there. There is, hopefully *some* documentation on plugins other than how to write one. I would like to know *what* plugins actually *do*. At this point I don't think it even matters. You need to just get back to the simplest configuration possible. That means: * Remove ALL plugins * Disable ALL third party repo's. * Do a yum clean all * Revert to the default CentOS .repo files * Revert to default yum.conf file If it works in this configuration, you can start adding things back one at a time. Maybe you've already tried this, I don't know. It's been a long thread. :) Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone just said *not* to use protect and priority together. Red Hat has a propensity to remove any documentation on a package that does not have a man page. Sometimes it's included in /usr/share/doc and sometimes in /usr/lib and sometimes it's just not there. There is, hopefully *some* documentation on plugins other than how to write one. I would like to know *what* plugins actually *do*. You can count on the CentOS wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum and follow the links in there to learn all about yum plugins. Akemi -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:51 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 06:25 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 23:45 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: [snip] snip Someone just said *not* to use protect and priority together. Me. But I'm no authority on it. Just passing what Johnny et al has said several times in the past. Red Hat has a propensity to remove any documentation on a package that does not have a man page. Sometimes it's included in /usr/share/doc and sometimes in /usr/lib and sometimes it's just not there. There is, hopefully *some* documentation on plugins other than how to write one. I would like to know *what* plugins actually *do*. Well Google? But you must be, like me, lazy. So here's your sign. ;-) http://www.duke.edu/search/?q=yum+package+manager Enjoy. -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
It seems everybody is out of ideas why yum is not updating the kernel. The following kernels are installed in /boot: vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 I originally installed CentOS 5.0 via CD. Yum automatically updated to 5.1 including kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5. I have traced the kernels from kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 to kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5. Yum stopped updating at this point. kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 was installed Oct 10, 2007 according to yum.log. It seems I installed rpmforge.repo around October 13, 2007. The installation included two files. rpmforge.repo and mirrors-rpmforge. The contents of rpmforge.repo is: # Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 5 - dag # URL: http://rpmforge.net/ [rpmforge] name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag #baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge #mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge enabled = 1 priority = 99 protect = 0 gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag gpgcheck = 1 Other than the priority is not needed, does any of the previous ring a bell? Still frustrated. I received the following this morning: /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron: Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5arch=i386repo=os error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 505: DNS lookup error Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5arch=i386repo=os error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 506: Failure To Connect To Web Server Has CentOS.org changed their url? -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems everybody is out of ideas why yum is not updating the kernel. The following kernels are installed in /boot: vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 I originally installed CentOS 5.0 via CD. Yum automatically updated to 5.1 including kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5. The kernel that came with CentOS 5.1 was kernel-2.6.18-53. Could you post your: /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:41 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems everybody is out of ideas why yum is not updating the kernel. The following kernels are installed in /boot: vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 I originally installed CentOS 5.0 via CD. Yum automatically updated to 5.1 including kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5. The kernel that came with CentOS 5.1 was kernel-2.6.18-53. Could you post your: /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo I misspoke. Yum installed kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14 October 13, 2007 according to yum.log. So, yum appears to have worked *once* updating the kernel. Looking in CentOS vault, I saw .15 which gives me a time frame for what it's worth. All I did was add rpmforge. I have removed it with no help. I will post any file related to this mystery when requested. Time wise, I have spent at least 4 days attempting to locate this failure. Here is the file you requested: # CentOS-Base.repo # # This file uses a new mirrorlist system developed by Lance Davis for CentOS. # The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the # update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and # geographically close to the client. You should use this for CentOS updates # unless you are manually picking other mirrors. # # If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the # remarked out baseurl= line instead. # # [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releaseverarch= $basearchrepo =os #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 priority=1 protect=1 #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releaseverarch= $basearchrepo =updates #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 priority=1 protect=1 #packages used/produced in the build but not released [addons] name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releaseverarch= $basearchrepo =addons #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 priority=1 protect=0 #additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releaseverarch= $basearchrepo =extras #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 priority=1 protect=0 #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releaseverarch= $basearchrepo =centosplus #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 priority=2 protect=0 -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:37 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:41 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip snip # CentOS-Base.repo # # This file uses a new mirrorlist system developed by Lance Davis for CentOS. # The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the # update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and # geographically close to the client. You should use this for CentOS updates # unless you are manually picking other mirrors. # # If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the # remarked out baseurl= line instead. # # [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releaseverarch= $basearchrepo =os #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 priority=1 protect=1 Priority *and* protect? Supposed to be a no-no. Worse, it's on the updates too. I would carefully examine all your repo defs and have *either* protect or priority, but not both. Also make sure the settings are appropriate sionce you've add some other repos. I've been using Rpmforge for a long time, NP. But at the time I established priorities, I disabled all protect settings. And there are a couple exclude and include setups for a few special instances. #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releaseverarch= $basearchrepo =updates #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 priority=1 protect=1 Conflict? snip HTH -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
I misspoke. Yum installed kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14 October 13, 2007 according to yum.log. So, yum appears to have worked *once* updating the kernel. Looking in CentOS vault, I saw .15 which gives me a time frame for what it's worth. All I did was add rpmforge. I have removed it with no help. I will post any file related to this mystery when requested. What does the following command produce on your system? yum --noplugins --disable '*' --enable updates list 'kernel*' -Shad ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 18:25 -0700, Shad L. Lords wrote: I misspoke. Yum installed kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14 October 13, 2007 according to yum.log. So, yum appears to have worked *once* updating the kernel. Looking in CentOS vault, I saw .15 which gives me a time frame for what it's worth. All I did was add rpmforge. I have removed it with no help. I will post any file related to this mystery when requested. What does the following command produce on your system? yum --noplugins --disable '*' --enable updates list 'kernel*' yum --noplugins --disable '*' --enable updates list 'kernel*' Setting up repositories updates 100% |=| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Installed Packages kernel.i686 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 installed kernel.i686 2.6.18-8.el5 installed kernel-headers.i386 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.cen installed Available Packages kernel-doc.noarch2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 updates kernel-headers.i386 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 updates Doesn't look like the problem is in plug-ins but maybe updates? -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 19:56 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:37 -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:41 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip snip [snip] Priority *and* protect? Supposed to be a no-no. Worse, it's on the updates too. I would carefully examine all your repo defs and have *either* protect or priority, but not both. Also make sure the settings are appropriate sionce you've add some other repos. Thanks for your response, Bill. I added the protect lines attempting to locate this problem. I've removed all protect lines. I've been using Rpmforge for a long time, NP. But at the time I established priorities, I disabled all protect settings. And there are a couple exclude and include setups for a few special instances. Mind telling me what these are? -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:27 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 1:58 PM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please look at the file /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt and see the first server from that list. If it is not a belnet.be mirror, please tell me which one it is, as it may be out of date. According to Bob's earlier post, he does not seem to have the fastestmirror plugin. So he probably does not have that file... Bob, do a 'yum install yum-fastestmirror' and try again. Did so. No help. FYI no timedhosts.txt in the rpm. I still think the problem lies in yum's message Could not find update match for kernel. timedhosts.txt is NOT in the rpm. It is created when you run yum and contains the names of the mirror sites yum tried to access. Johnny wanted to know which site yum attempted to use. If you do not see this file even after yum was run, then something is amiss there. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 02:22 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:27 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 1:58 PM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please look at the file /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt and see the first server from that list. If it is not a belnet.be mirror, please tell me which one it is, as it may be out of date. According to Bob's earlier post, he does not seem to have the fastestmirror plugin. So he probably does not have that file... Bob, do a 'yum install yum-fastestmirror' and try again. Did so. No help. FYI no timedhosts.txt in the rpm. I still think the problem lies in yum's message Could not find update match for kernel. timedhosts.txt is NOT in the rpm. It is created when you run yum and contains the names of the mirror sites yum tried to access. Johnny wanted to know which site yum attempted to use. If you do not see this file even after yum was run, then something is amiss there. My bad! It's there. I was looking in the wrong directory and didn't notice until later. The file currently contains: mirror.centos.org 1.90688800812 Shouldn't yum update kernel update all kernel rpms installed? Rpm -q kernel returns all kernel rpm's I have installed (ie kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5) I tried this (yum update kernel) which reported: Could not find update match for kernel. How do I find what arch yum is using? This may be a clue why the kernel only is not being updated. This is what uname -rmpi returns: uname -rmpi 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 i686 i686 i386 Akemi Thanks for staying with me, Akemi -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 23:14 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: Hm. I just noticed http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/ kernel listings are i686.rpm. Could my problem be this is confusing yum as I use i386 and this is the i386 directory? Doesn't make sense since no one else seems to have this. Of course their are most likely few running Pentium II's. Searching for answers in the dark. um, i686 is pentium pro and beyond, including P-II, P3, P4, and Core, as well as the various Athlons. AFAIK, CentOS 5 doesn't support the older i486/i585 variants cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 5 model name : Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping: 1 cpu MHz : 398.278 cache size : 512 KB Sorry, I didn't actually say I have a Pentium II. Just implied I did. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 02:22 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: My bad! It's there. I was looking in the wrong directory and didn't notice until later. The file currently contains: mirror.centos.org 1.90688800812 Is this all you have in the timedhosts.txt file? That's odd. Maybe Johnny can help you here. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 10:58 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: [snip] OK .. lets go at this a different way :) what is the output of the following comamnd (put it all on one line if it wraps): rpm -qa yum\* sqlite\* python\* rpm\* centos\* | sort centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1 centos-release-notes-5.1.0-2 python-2.4.3-19.el5 python-devel-2.4.3-19.el5 python-elementtree-1.2.6-5 python-imaging-1.1.6-2.el5.rf python-ldap-2.2.0-2.1 python-numeric-23.7-2.2.2 python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1 python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-2 rpm-4.4.2-47.el5 rpm-build-4.4.2-47.el5 rpm-devel-4.4.2-47.el5 rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf rpm-libs-4.4.2-47.el5 rpm-python-4.4.2-47.el5 sqlite-3.3.6-2 sqlite-devel-3.3.6-2 yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5 yum-cron-0.6-1.el5.centos yum-downloadonly-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yumex-2.0.3-2.el5.centos yum-fastestmirror-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.fc6 yum-priorities-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yum-repolist-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yum-skip-broken-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yum-updatesd-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5 yum-utils-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 yum-versionlock-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 02:22 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: My bad! It's there. I was looking in the wrong directory and didn't notice until later. The file currently contains: mirror.centos.org 1.90688800812 Is this all you have in the timedhosts.txt file? That's odd. Maybe Johnny can help you here. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos OK .. lets go at this a different way :) what is the output of the following comamnd (put it all on one line if it wraps): rpm -qa yum\* sqlite\* python\* rpm\* centos\* | sort signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 09:28 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 10:58 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: [snip] OK .. lets go at this a different way :) what is the output of the following comamnd (put it all on one line if it wraps): rpm -qa yum\* sqlite\* python\* rpm\* centos\* | sort yum-versionlock-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2 Any chance you have the kernel listed in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list and versionlock enabled?? versionlock.list is disabled and there is no file versionlock. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Feb 18, 2008 10:56 PM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 20:24 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: repo id repo name status priority === = == rpmforgeRed Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net enabled 99 baseCentOS-5 - Base enabled 99 updates CentOS-5 - Updates enabled 99 c5-mediaCentOS-5 - Mediadisabled99 centosplus CentOS-5 - Plus enabled 99 addons CentOS-5 - Addons enabled 99 extras CentOS-5 - Extras enabled 99 Looks OK to me. What the hell is our problem? All my updates are via yum. I received 1 updated kernel in September and none since. In addition to what Ray Van Dolson suggested... you need to set up priorities according to: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities Correct ... however, with updates and base both at 99, this should not be a problem. I see no reason why this will not work. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
OK, that worked for me yum clean all yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=updates update Should this be done on a weekly/monthly basis? yum clean all Or are my repos messed up? repo id repo name status priority === = == extras CentOS-5 - Extras enabled 1 baseCentOS-5 - Base enabled 1 addons CentOS-5 - Addons enabled 1 c5-mediaCentOS-5 - Mediadisabled2 centosplus CentOS-5 - Plus disabled2 adobe-linux-i38 Adobe Systems Incorporated enabled 11 kbs-CentOS-Extr CentOS.Karan.Org-EL5 - Stable enabled 12 rpmforgeRed Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net enabled 15 updates CentOS-5 - Updates enabled 99 c5-testing CentOS-5 Testingdisabled99 I'm guessing updates should be priority 1 instead of 99? Thank you for the help!! On Feb 19, 2008 2:02 AM, Ray Van Dolson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Coming in late on this thread, but... 1. Can you point your repo's at a different URL? 2. Have you tried a 'yum clean all' first? 3. Try disabling everything _but_ the update repo, doing yum clean and then yum update. yum clean all yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=updates update Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Feb 18, 2008 10:56 PM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 20:24 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: repo id repo name status priority === = == rpmforgeRed Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net enabled 99 baseCentOS-5 - Base enabled 99 updates CentOS-5 - Updates enabled 99 c5-mediaCentOS-5 - Mediadisabled99 centosplus CentOS-5 - Plus enabled 99 addons CentOS-5 - Addons enabled 99 extras CentOS-5 - Extras enabled 99 Looks OK to me. What the hell is our problem? All my updates are via yum. I received 1 updated kernel in September and none since. In addition to what Ray Van Dolson suggested... you need to set up priorities according to: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Ed Donahue wrote: OK, that worked for me yum clean all yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=updates update Should this be done on a weekly/monthly basis? yum clean all Or are my repos messed up? I run yum clean headers daily. I disabled the yum update daemon and use the following: -=-=-=-=- #!/bin/sh # /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then /usr/bin/yum clean headers /usr/bin/yum -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum sleep 300 /usr/bin/yum -e 0 -d 0 -y update sleep 10 /usr/bin/yum clean headers fi -=-=-=-=- The sleep commands are probably not necessary, but they make me feel better. Perhaps just a sync command would be enough, probably not even that is needed. Actually I just remembered - the first sleep is necessary. Since I have several machines, I have staggered sleep values so they hit my local mirror at different times. I've found apache on my local mirror (low mem machine) sometimes locks up if they aren't staggered and all hit the repo at the same time. If you are on dialup though, downloading headers may take awhile. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 06:30:38AM -0500, Ed Donahue wrote: OK, that worked for me yum clean all yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=updates update Should this be done on a weekly/monthly basis? yum clean all Or are my repos messed up? repo id repo name status priority === = == extras CentOS-5 - Extras enabled 1 baseCentOS-5 - Base enabled 1 addons CentOS-5 - Addons enabled 1 c5-mediaCentOS-5 - Mediadisabled2 centosplus CentOS-5 - Plus disabled2 adobe-linux-i38 Adobe Systems Incorporated enabled 11 kbs-CentOS-Extr CentOS.Karan.Org-EL5 - Stable enabled 12 rpmforgeRed Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net enabled 15 updates CentOS-5 - Updates enabled 99 c5-testing CentOS-5 Testingdisabled99 I'm guessing updates should be priority 1 instead of 99? No, you shouldn't need to run that really ever, but it can be helpful if yum gets funky (and it does seem to from time to time). Also, yeah, your updates should be the same priority as the base. Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 23:02 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:56:58PM -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 20:24 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: [snip] Coming in late on this thread, but... 1. Can you point your repo's at a different URL? 2. Have you tried a 'yum clean all' first? 3. Try disabling everything _but_ the update repo, doing yum clean and then yum update. yum clean all yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=updates update After running both commands I receive the following: 0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion Still haven't found the problem! I have also put priority=1 in both base and updates. No help. So...if Ed's is working, why isn't mine? Is yum-updatesd the problem? Should I use Michael's script? This has become very frustrating! -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 23:02 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:56:58PM -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 20:24 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: [snip] Coming in late on this thread, but... 1. Can you point your repo's at a different URL? 2. Have you tried a 'yum clean all' first? 3. Try disabling everything _but_ the update repo, doing yum clean and then yum update. yum clean all yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=updates update After running both commands I receive the following: 0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion Still haven't found the problem! I have also put priority=1 in both base and updates. No help. So...if Ed's is working, why isn't mine? Is yum-updatesd the problem? Should I use Michael's script? This has become very frustrating! sounds like the mirror you are updating from is not up to date. We currently know that one mirror is bad: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/2008-February/002532.html Please look at the file /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt and see the first server from that list. If it is not a belnet.be mirror, please tell me which one it is, as it may be out of date. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 15:58 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: [snip] sounds like the mirror you are updating from is not up to date. I *think* I'm using http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ I have found that there is no kernel at rpmforge so I have commented out all mirror urls in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file and disabled the rpmforge.repo file setting enabled=0. I have also set priority=1. This creates a problem updating the kernel if you have rpms from rpmforge. Is there a fix for this? From what I gather from the message Could not find update match for kernel. This is my problem. Why can't it find this match. What match is yum looking for? We currently know that one mirror is bad: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/2008-February/002532.html Please look at the file /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt and see the first server from that list. If it is not a belnet.be mirror, please tell me which one it is, as it may be out of date. I don't have this file. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Feb 19, 2008 1:58 PM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: sounds like the mirror you are updating from is not up to date. We currently know that one mirror is bad: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/2008-February/002532.html Please look at the file /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt and see the first server from that list. If it is not a belnet.be mirror, please tell me which one it is, as it may be out of date. According to Bob's earlier post, he does not seem to have the fastestmirror plugin. So he probably does not have that file... Bob, do a 'yum install yum-fastestmirror' and try again. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 04:59 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: [snip] -=-=-=-=- #!/bin/sh # /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then /usr/bin/yum clean headers /usr/bin/yum -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum sleep 300 /usr/bin/yum -e 0 -d 0 -y update sleep 10 /usr/bin/yum clean headers fi -=-=-=-=- I commented out the clean headers and sleep lines. Stopped yum-updatesd and executed the script from the command line and it just sleeps (ie, ps aux script STAT=S). Curious. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:27 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 1:58 PM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Taylor wrote: sounds like the mirror you are updating from is not up to date. We currently know that one mirror is bad: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/2008-February/002532.html Please look at the file /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt and see the first server from that list. If it is not a belnet.be mirror, please tell me which one it is, as it may be out of date. According to Bob's earlier post, he does not seem to have the fastestmirror plugin. So he probably does not have that file... Bob, do a 'yum install yum-fastestmirror' and try again. Did so. No help. FYI no timedhosts.txt in the rpm. I still think the problem lies in yum's message Could not find update match for kernel. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Hm. I just noticed http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/ kernel listings are i686.rpm. Could my problem be this is confusing yum as I use i386 and this is the i386 directory? Doesn't make sense since no one else seems to have this. Of course their are most likely few running Pentium II's. Searching for answers in the dark. Shouldn't yum update kernel work update just the kernel* rpms? -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
Bob Taylor wrote: Hm. I just noticed http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/ kernel listings are i686.rpm. Could my problem be this is confusing yum as I use i386 and this is the i386 directory? Doesn't make sense since no one else seems to have this. Of course their are most likely few running Pentium II's. Searching for answers in the dark. um, i686 is pentium pro and beyond, including P-II, P3, P4, and Core, as well as the various Athlons. AFAIK, CentOS 5 doesn't support the older i486/i585 variants ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Feb 18, 2008 9:52 AM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having the same problem as Valent Turkovic. I have the following /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo (mind the line-wraps): Would you post the output of: uname -mr rpm -qa | grep ^kernel | sort I just want to make sure you indeed do not have the latest kernel. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
I am having the same issue [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -mr 2.6.18-53.el5 x86_64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ^kernel | sort kernel-2.6.18-53.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 On Feb 18, 2008 1:10 PM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you post the output of: uname -mr rpm -qa | grep ^kernel | sort I just want to make sure you indeed do not have the latest kernel. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Feb 18, 2008 2:40 PM, Ed Donahue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having the same issue [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -mr 2.6.18-53.el5 x86_64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ^kernel | sort kernel-2.6.18-53.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 First make sure you do not have any line like: exclude=kernel -OR- exclude=kernel* in /etc/yum.conf or /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo Then try updating the kernel by: yum -d5 update kernel Does the output show any hint? Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
output [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum -d5 update kernel Loading skip-broken plugin Loading installonlyn plugin Loading priorities plugin Loading fastestmirror plugin Loading kmod plugin Loading kernel-module plugin Running config handler for skip-broken plugin Running config handler for installonlyn plugin Running config handler for priorities plugin Running init handler for fastestmirror plugin Running init handler for kmod plugin Loading Fedora Extras kernel module support. Yum Version: 3.0.5 COMMAND: yum -d5 Installroot: / Ext Commands: kernel Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Running postreposetup handler for fastestmirror plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Reading repository metadata in from local files Setting up Package Sacks Running exclude handler for priorities plugin --list of packages-- 588 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Reading Local RPMDB Building updates object Could not find update match for kernel No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion I think this started after I did an upgrade from 5 to 5.1 via dvd install. On Feb 18, 2008 7:31 PM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First make sure you do not have any line like: exclude=kernel -OR- exclude=kernel* in /etc/yum.conf or /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo Then try updating the kernel by: yum -d5 update kernel Does the output show any hint? Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] pluginconf.d]# yum -d5 update kernel Loading skip-broken plugin Loading installonlyn plugin Loading priorities plugin Loading fastestmirror plugin kmod plugin is disabled kernel-module plugin is disabled Running config handler for skip-broken plugin Running config handler for installonlyn plugin Running config handler for priorities plugin Running init handler for fastestmirror plugin Yum Version: 3.0.5 COMMAND: yum -d5 Installroot: / Ext Commands: kernel ... 588 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Reading Local RPMDB Building updates object Could not find update match for kernel No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion On Feb 18, 2008 8:32 PM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Just as a test*, can you temporarily disable these two plugins to see if the new kernel is found by yum after that? Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Feb 18, 2008 5:41 PM, Ed Donahue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pluginconf.d]# yum -d5 update kernel Loading skip-broken plugin Loading installonlyn plugin Loading priorities plugin Loading fastestmirror plugin kmod plugin is disabled kernel-module plugin is disabled 588 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Reading Local RPMDB Building updates object Could not find update match for kernel No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion Even with the two plugins disabled, yum still does not find the new kernel? OK, could you do the following? yum install yum-repolist Then run: yum repolist to list all the repos you have on your system and their status. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:10 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Feb 18, 2008 9:52 AM, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having the same problem as Valent Turkovic. I have the following /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo (mind the line-wraps): Would you post the output of: uname -mr 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 i686 rpm -qa | grep ^kernel | sort kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.centos.plus I manually added kernel-headers. BTW uname -a says: uname -a Linux ann.qtpi.local 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 18:58:54 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux This doesn't look right. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 16:31 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Feb 18, 2008 2:40 PM, Ed Donahue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having the same issue First make sure you do not have any line like: exclude=kernel -OR- exclude=kernel* I have no excludes in /etc/yum.conf or /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo Then try updating the kernel by: yum -d5 update kernel Does the output show any hint? yum -d5 update kernel Loading skip-broken plugin versionlock plugin is disabled Loading installonlyn plugin Loading downloadonly plugin Loading priorities plugin Running config handler for skip-broken plugin Running config handler for installonlyn plugin Running config handler for downloadonly plugin Running config handler for priorities plugin Yum Version: 3.0.5 COMMAND: yum -d5 Installroot: / Ext Commands: kernel Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories rpmforge 100% |=| 1.1 kB 00:00 base 100% |=| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=| 951 B 00:00 centosplus100% |=| 951 B 00:00 addons100% |=| 951 B 00:00 extras100% |=| 1.1 kB 00:00 Running postreposetup handler for downloadonly plugin Reading repository metadata in from local files Setting up Package Sacks Running exclude handler for priorities plugin 0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Reading Local RPMDB Building updates object Could not find update match for kernel No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion I see nothing other than the second to last line. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 20:24 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: yum install yum-repolist Then run: yum repolist to list all the repos you have on your system and their status. After running yum install yum-repolist yum repolist is: Loading skip-broken plugin Loading installonlyn plugin Loading downloadonly plugin Loading priorities plugin Loading repolist plugin repo id repo name status priority === = == rpmforgeRed Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net enabled 99 baseCentOS-5 - Base enabled 99 updates CentOS-5 - Updates enabled 99 c5-mediaCentOS-5 - Mediadisabled99 centosplus CentOS-5 - Plus enabled 99 addons CentOS-5 - Addons enabled 99 extras CentOS-5 - Extras enabled 99 Looks OK to me. What the hell is our problem? All my updates are via yum. I received 1 updated kernel in September and none since. -- Bob Taylor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:56:58PM -0800, Bob Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 20:24 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: yum install yum-repolist Then run: yum repolist to list all the repos you have on your system and their status. After running yum install yum-repolist yum repolist is: Loading skip-broken plugin Loading installonlyn plugin Loading downloadonly plugin Loading priorities plugin Loading repolist plugin repo id repo name status priority === = == rpmforgeRed Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net enabled 99 baseCentOS-5 - Base enabled 99 updates CentOS-5 - Updates enabled 99 c5-mediaCentOS-5 - Mediadisabled99 centosplus CentOS-5 - Plus enabled 99 addons CentOS-5 - Addons enabled 99 extras CentOS-5 - Extras enabled 99 Looks OK to me. What the hell is our problem? All my updates are via yum. I received 1 updated kernel in September and none since. Coming in late on this thread, but... 1. Can you point your repo's at a different URL? 2. Have you tried a 'yum clean all' first? 3. Try disabling everything _but_ the update repo, doing yum clean and then yum update. yum clean all yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=updates update Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
