Oh this is strange and seems like I found the problem with default yum. Looking at the redhat docs, yum obtains value of $releasever from the distroverpkg variable in yum.conf. In case of my BM it is pointing to centos-release. In case of a working slf6.3 this variable does not exit.
So I commented this line and now everything works. I am guessing yum is falling back to redhat-release or system-release if this info is not in yum.conf Now the question is which package/version fixes this yum.conf? On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 11:27 -0600, Parag Mhashilkar wrote: > On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 11:20 -0600, Pat Riehecky wrote: > > Those look like they should.... > > > > What do > > > > rpm -q sl-release > > sl-release-6.3-1.x86_64 > > > yum provides redhat-release > > > > This command fails with the same PYCURL ERROR 22 > > But the file /etc/redhat-release exists and contains > Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon) > > I suspect most dont see the error since they install many other > packages, one of which does the required magic. One we are creating is a > bare min for cloud work. > > > report? > > > > Pat > > > > On 02/21/2013 11:17 AM, Parag Mhashilkar wrote: > > > Hi Pat, > > > > > > Repo files are attached. I did an rpm install of > > > yum-conf-sl6x-1-2.noarch.rpm separately after the VM creation hoping > > > that it would fix the problem, but no luck. > > > > > > Just a minor correction to my previous email, its not pycurl but yum > > > that is not able to expand the $releasever > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 11:08 -0600, Pat Riehecky wrote: > > >> Can I see your yum repo files (/etc/yum.repos.d/sl*.repo)? > > >> > > >> Pat > > >> > > >> On 02/21/2013 11:05 AM, Parag Mhashilkar wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> I created a minimal SL6 image with yum groups base+core and > > >>> openssh-server using > > >>> http://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/scientific/6x/x86_64/os/. Image is created > > >>> fine but when I boot up and try to run yum update it fails with errors > > >>> (see below). I also tried enabling and disabling mirrors doing yum clean > > >>> all every time before I run the update command. > > >>> > > >>> I also noticed there is a /var/cache/yum/x86_64/$releasever dir. > > >>> Removing this $releasever dir does not help. It is recreated. For a > > >>> working system $releasever in the yum cache is actually expanded to the > > >>> respective versions but not in this case. > > >>> > > >>> Is there a package pycurl depends on that is not pulled by default > > >>> making it unable to expand the $releasever correctly? > > >>> > > >>> --------- > > >>> yum clean all ; yum update --skip-broken 1 > yum.out 2>&1 > > >>> > > >>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security > > >>> Determining fastest mirrors > > >>> * sl: ftp2.scientificlinux.org > > >>> * sl-security: ftp2.scientificlinux.org > > >>> * sl6x: ftp2.scientificlinux.org > > >>> * sl6x-security: ftp2.scientificlinux.org > > >>> http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/% > > >>> 24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - > > >>> "The requested URL returned error: 404" > > >>> Trying other mirror. > > >>> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/% > > >>> 24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - > > >>> "The requested URL returned error: 404" > > >>> Trying other mirror. > > >>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/% > > >>> 24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - > > >>> "The requested URL returned error: 404" > > >>> Trying other mirror. > > >>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/% > > >>> 24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 9 - > > >>> "Server denied you to change to the given directory" > > >>> Trying other mirror. > > >>> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: > > >>> sl. Please verify its path and try again > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > > > > -- Thanks & Regards +========================================================== | Parag Mhashilkar | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MS 120 | Wilson & Kirk Road, Batavia, IL - 60510 |---------------------------------------------------------- | Phone: 1 (630) 840-6530 Fax: 1 (630) 840-2783 |---------------------------------------------------------- | Wilson Hall, 867E (Nov 17, 2010 - To date) | Wilson Hall, 863E (Apr 24, 2007 - Nov 16, 2010) | Wilson Hall, 856E (Mar 21, 2005 - Apr 23, 2007) +==========================================================
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