Topic: Yum update to 7.2 fails

[bpivk]

Ok now i need some help  

I had a server crash in the middle of updating now i get these two errors

Error: Missing Dependency: clamav = 0.91.1-1.el4.rf is needed by package clamd
Error: e-smith-qmail conflicts with runit < 1.7

How could i solve them?

Edit: I'm doing a signal-event post-upgrade and reboot and i'll se if that works but i doubt that it will work on clamd error.

[cactus]

Ok now i need some help  

I had a server crash in the middle of updating now i get these two errors

Error: Missing Dependency: clamav = 0.91.1-1.el4.rf is needed by package clamd
Error: e-smith-qmail conflicts with runit < 1.7

How could i solve them?

Edit: I'm doing a signal-event post-upgrade and reboot and i'll se if that works but i doubt that it will work on clamd error.

You can not complete an update with missing dependencies. Yum should fail when one of the required packages is not found.

A reboot should normally bring your system up again.

It might well be that the mirrors are not fully synced, this has happened with earlier upgrades as well, it has taken up to one or two days in the past before all mirrors were in sync and all needed packages were availabale.

Furthermore It might be that you have other repositories enabled than the five in the FAQ, or that the exclude lines in the yum configuration files are not up-to-date.

Please specify the current version (before the update) of your server.

[bpivk]

Please specify the current version (before the update) of your server.

7.13 is the current version and as i have said the update did work but i had a problem and i needed to reboot the server (the hard way).

Now i get those two errors and don't know what to do about them.
The runinit is a first for me. I'll try to update everything except clam and i'll see what i get.

Edit: Same problems. Upgraded everything except qmail and clam.

[sgwestrip]

The problem I had was solved by running:

yum clean metadata
yum clean all

and then yum update works fine.

As I was asked, the server was running 7.1.3 with all updates applied. I also tried this on a 2nd SME server that I am an administrator for and it had exactly the same problem that was resolved in exactly the same way.

Thanks for everyones help,
Steve

[allsorts]

Was a bug report ever raised in bugzilla? I have a look but can't find anything in the friendly bugzilla interface.

I was running 7.1.3 and tried to use the web based software installer, it fell over complaining about not being able to find the fontconfig rpm. Dug about in the forums found the "yum clean all" etc commands.

SSH'd into the server ran "yum clean all", then re-ran the software installer and it completed succesfully. The previous run of the software installer (to upgrade to 7.1.3) had run without any trouble.

Two things that need "fixing":

The apparent requirement to run"yum clean all" when upgrading.

Make  the page that you get in the software installer when yum falls over clearly indicate that yum has not completed properly and that the upgrade/update is not going to happen.