[clue-tech] CentOS 5 update problems
Dan Poler
dpoler at redhat.com
Mon Aug 20 13:15:24 MDT 2007
It almost seems like the header to vim-minimal is wonky.
yum clean all then yum update again? maybe a yum --exclude=vim-minimal
update ?
dap
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:06 -0700, Mark G. Harvey wrote:
> Dan,
>
> I've not had any issue when downloading updates for Windows, SuSE Linux, or anything else. I
> seriously doubt its a firewall issue. No proxy server involved either.
>
> I did a basic install of CentOS 5 with the intention of using it as a hosting server. Its a
> virtual machine in VMware ESX 3.0.1 which, AFAIK, supports RHEL 5.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Mark
>
>
> repository entries ...
>
> [admin at hosting ~]$ ll /etc/yum.repos.d/
> total 16
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2365 Jul 12 16:32 CentOS-Base.repo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 622 Apr 8 13:22 CentOS-Media.repo
> [admin at hosting ~]$
>
> Here's what I have in the way of errors for Package Updater & yum
>
> ... Package Updater sees that there are 43 updates available, but bombs when trying to
> retrieve them.
>
> -- Package Updater Crash --
>
> Component: Software Manager
> Summary: TBccefa5c9 yumRepo.py:426:__get:RepoError: failure:
> CentOS/compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4.i386.rpm from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 334, in _apply
> self.applyChanges(self.mainwin)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 557, in applyChanges
> self.checkDeps(mainwin)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 322, in checkDeps
> self.populateTs(keepold=0)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 150, in populateTs
> self.downloadHeader(txmbr.po)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 767, in downloadHeader
> cache=repo.http_caching != 'none',
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 454, in getHeader
> cache=cache,
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 426, in __get
> raise Errors.RepoError, "failure: %s from %s: %s" % (relative, self.id, e)
> RepoError: failure: CentOS/compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4.i386.rpm from base: [Errno 256] No more
> mirrors to try.
>
> Local variables in innermost frame:
> e: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
> start: 440
> url: None
> text: None
> self: base
> cache: True
> reget: None
> relative: CentOS/compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4.i386.rpm
> headers: ()
> checkfunc: (<bound method PackageManager.verifyHeader of <__main__.PackageManager object at
> 0x91389cc>>, (<yum.sqlitesack.YumAvailablePackageSqlite object at 0x9692f8c>, 1), {})
> copy_local: 1
> end: 9309
> local: //var/cache/yum/base/headers/compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4.i386.hdr
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -- yum update failure --
>
> [root at hosting /]# yum update
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for vim-minimal to pack into transaction set.
> vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5 100% |=========================| 7.4 kB 00:00
> http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5.3.i386.rpm:
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5 100% |=========================| 7.4 kB 00:00
> http://mirror.newnanutilities.org/pub/centos/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5.3.i386.rpm:
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> http://mirrors.csumb.edu/centos/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5.3.i386.rpm:
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 302: The HTTP server returned a redirect error that would lead to an
> infinite loop.
> The last 30x error message was:
> Found
> Trying other mirror.
> vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5 100% |=========================| 7.4 kB 00:00
> http://mirror.fast-serv.com/pub/centos/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5.3.i386.rpm:
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5 100% |=========================| 7.4 kB 00:00
> http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/centos/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5.3.i386.rpm:
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5 100% |=========================| 7.4 kB 00:00
> http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/CentOS/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5.3.i386.rpm:
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/CentOS/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5.3.i386.rpm:
> [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] [Errno ftp error] 500 Unknown command.
> Trying other mirror.
> vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5 100% |=========================| 7.4 kB 00:00
> http://centos.mirrors.mypsh.com/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5.3.i386.rpm:
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> ftp://mirror.daemonbox.net/pub/centos/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5.3.i386.rpm:
> [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] [Errno ftp error] 500 Unknown command.
> Trying other mirror.
> vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5 100% |=========================| 7.4 kB 00:00
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5.3.i386.rpm:
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5 100% |=========================| 7.4 kB 00:00
> http://updates.interworx.info/centos/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5.3.i386.rpm:
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: RPMS/vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5.3.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more
> mirrors to try.
> [root at hosting /]#
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> --- Dan Poler <dpoler at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 09:36 -0700, Mark G. Harvey wrote:
> > > A question for CentOS gurus ...
> > >
> > > My background ... I'm using CentOS for the first time. I'm experienced in other distros,
> > > particularly SuSE. Used to use RedHat back in version 8 & 9.
> > >
> > > The problem ... Did a fresh install of CentOS 5 into a Virtual Machine. All seems normal
> > &
> > > the update monitor even detects that 40+ updates are available. The trouble is that when
> > > using Package Updater, it bombs saying it can't find the mirror servers to receive the
> > > updates.
> >
> > If you do a 'service yum-updatesd stop' and a 'yum update' from the
> > command line what's that do for you? Can you provide a cut and paste of
> > the errors if that errors out?
> >
> > Do you have repo entries in /etc/yum.repos.d/* ?
> >
> > Getting blocked by a firewall somewhere along the way?
> >
> > dap
> >
> > --
> > Dan Poler, RHCE
> > Senior Consultant
> > Red Hat, Inc.
> > E-Mail: dpoler at redhat.com
> > Phone: +1 (303) 502-4576
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Red Hat, Inc.
E-Mail: dpoler at redhat.com
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