On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 23:06:27 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Stephen Isard <[email protected]> >wrote: >> On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 15:55:23 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>>I'm going to urge you to do "yum update" manually, *once*, to see if >>>the problem occurs today. >>> >>>And "sl-fastbugs" is never going to be completely stable. Those are >>>pre-production bugfixes, highly dynamic and changing quickly, one of >>>the places most likely to have a discrepancy between the repodata and >>>the published RPMs. >> >> Thanks, Nico. I've actually done a complete update from the command line, >> having found that >> I could update individual packages. I didn't have any good reason to think >> that it would solve the >> problem with yum-cron, but the packages did want updating anyway. >> >> The problem wasn't specific to sl-fastbugs though. There were a couple of >> sl-security packages waiting too, >> and after I updated all of the fastbug ones, yum-cron still failed with the >> same error message >> on the sl-security packages. >> >> There haven't been any updates available since I did the manual update, so I >> haven't yet had a chance to >> see what yum-cron will do with new ones. > >Then perhaps there is an issue with your nearest SL mirror? Perhaps >you could simply disable the sl-fastbugs repo for now, and see what >yum-cron does? I wouldn't activate sl-fastbugs on a production host >due to potential poor interactions with these leading edge packages. Can you get anything from the actual error message back in my first post (https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1707&L=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS&T=0&F=&S=&X=5CC755D9BAD01309BB&Y=7p03xyr02%40sneakemail.com&P=51760)? It's complaining about a missing file on my local system. I don't know why yum-cron expects such a file to be there, but I would expect on general principles for that error message to get passed up through the python calls and for yum-cron to issue its own complaint. Instead I'm getting a system call error. /var/log/messages shows "python: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/sbin/yum-cron'".
