[clue-tech] CentOS 5 update problems

[Mark G. Harvey]

Kevin, 

changed the baseurl in CentOS-Base.repo to
baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.0/updates/i386/  
... same site I downloaded the DVD .iso file.  

[root at hosting yum.repos.d]# yum clean all
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Cleaning up Everything
[root at hosting yum.repos.d]# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
base                      100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 249 kB    00:02
base      : ################################################## 552/552
Added 552 new packages, deleted 0 old in 4.40 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 249 kB    00:02
updates   : ################################################## 552/552
Added 552 new packages, deleted 0 old in 4.35 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 249 kB    00:02
addons    : ################################################## 552/552
Added 552 new packages, deleted 0 old in 4.36 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 249 kB    00:02
extras    : ################################################## 552/552
Added 552 new packages, deleted 0 old in 4.39 seconds
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://mirrors.kernel.org/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 base: [Errno 256] No more
mirrors to try.

even excluding the problem "vim-minimal" didn't help ... 

[root at hosting yum.repos.d]# yum --exclude=vim-minimal update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for kernel to pack into transaction set.
kernel-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.i 100% |=========================| 203 kB    00:01
http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.i686.rpm:
[Errno -1] Header is not complete.
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: RPMS/kernel-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.i686.rpm from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors
to try.

I took the DVD+R which I created from the downloaded .iso file & tried a physical install on
an old workstation (1GB RAM & P4 1.7 GHz).  During the first part of the install, there is an
option to do a media check.  I did ... and after scanning the media, I got a result ...
failure.  This inspite of the .iso file passing the md5sum check.  So, I'm downloading a new
DVD .iso file from http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/centos/5.0/isos/i386/  

This whole fiasco could have been caused by a corruption.  There should be a way of telling
kernel.org that their DVD .iso is bad.  

Anyway, I'll try again once the new image file is downloaded.  Thanks!

Mark


--- Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:27:21 -0700 (PDT)
> markgharvey at yahoo.com ("Mark G. Harvey") wrote:
> 
> > Kevin,
> > 
> > Thanks for your reply.  My replies below.  
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> ...snip...
> > 
> > I'm not seeing anything wrong with the output, but then again, I'm no
> > expert.  
> 
> Yeah, odd. Those look ok. 
> 
> > I remarked them out & added a second baseurl= ... tried both of these
> > for the baseurl= ... neither worked ... 
> >   http://centos-distro.cavecreek.net/centos/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/
> >   http://centos-distro.cavecreek.net/centos/5.0/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml
> 
> Neither of those is correct. You want: 
> http://centos-distro.cavecreek.net/centos/5.0/updates/i386/
> or you can put it in there as: 
> http://centos-distro.cavecreek.net/centos/$release/updates/$basearch/
> 
> Can you try those?
> 
> > > $releasever is filled in by your release... you are using centos5,
> > > so it's a "5". $basearch is your machine arch, so i386 or x86_64 or
> > > ppc or whatever type of machine you have. 
> > 
> > my release = 5
> > my arch = i386
> 
> Right. It's just a simple substitution so that the same config file
> will work on lots of different machines. :) 
> 
> kevin
> 



       
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