Topic: Yum update problem

[Franco]

After messing with Yum, when I tried upgrading it gives me an error:

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[root@sme ~]# yum update
==============================================================
WARNING: Additional commands may be required after running yum
==============================================================
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
smeaddons                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00    
updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00    
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00    
smeos                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00    
smeupdates                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00    
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
/sbin/e-smith/yum: line 9: 14401 Terminated              /usr/bin/yum "$@"


Anyone have a solution for this?
I tried removing the db as another post suggest:
/home/e-smith/db/yum_repositories
with no luck!

[shell]

there is the option - yum clean

you need to put one of the options below after:
headers, packages, cache, metadata or all

for example:

yum clean headers

haven't used this myself, but maybe starting with the yum clean metadata as this is the point your yum update fails

[william_syd]

Go all the way with

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yum clean all
however it looks like sme 'modified' yum is failing.
So try

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rpm -Uvh http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/7/smeupdates/i386/RPMS/smeserver-yum-1.2.0-27.el4.sme.noarch.rpm

or try

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/usr/bin/yum clean all
/usr/bin/yum update
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

[Franco]

I tried it all:

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
/sbin/e-smith/yum: line 9: 22574 Killed                  /usr/bin/yum "$@"
================================================================
No new rpms were installed. No additional commands are required.
================================================================

the local files seem to be the problem!
The last lines from the log:

40000000460240b20a95ffc4 yum list available status 15
@40000000460240db0b5734b4 Error: No Groups on which to run command
@40000000460240db0d0b8bd4 yum grouplist available status 256
@40000000460240de007db1bc Error: No Groups on which to run command
@40000000460240de022bfa14 yum grouplist installed status 256
@4000000046024769111cfd34 yum list updates status 15
@400000004602478f17f47fec Error: No Groups on which to run command
@400000004602478f19c7e82c yum grouplist updates status 256

[william_syd]

After messing with Yum

What exactly did you do ?

[Franco]

What exactly did you do ?

I followed this tutorial: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=35111.0

[william_syd]

What did you do about this line (which looks wrong)?

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vi /etc/e-smith/templates/yum.conf/21gnome216

[Franco]

I did noticed the mistake and corrected it:
vi /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/yum.conf/21gnome216

[william_syd]

I did noticed the mistake and corrected it:
vi /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/yum.conf/21gnome216

I mean did you delete it before trying the above steps?

[Franco]

Yes, besides the above commands will clear it all.
I'm about to try copying the configuration files from a good system to mine and see what happens.

Thanks,

[william_syd]

besides the above commands will clear it all.

Which command in particular?

I created the file

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pico -w /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/yum.conf/21gnome216
Pasted in

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[lpt-desktop]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - LPT Desktop 3.6 para Enterprise Linux 4
baseurl=http://bruto.sys-net.it/lpt
gpgkey=http://www.linuxparatodos.net/lpt/LPT-RPM-KEY
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
and did

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expand-template /etc/yum.conf
yum update then failed due to that repo.

I did the commands from previous post and nothing removed that repo.

I then

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rm -f /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/yum.conf/21gnome216

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expand-template /etc/yum.conf

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yum clean all
and things were back to normal.

In addition, what did you do about this..

enable groups for the contos repo in /etc/yum.conf