Topic: Update problems - icant update the sme7

[lucho115]

OK, that the problem 2 days ago, i got a mail that say me thats there are updates , so i go to server-manager like ever , and click update,start the job,  but i get this errors:
---> Package netpbm.i386 0:10.25-2.EL4.6 set to be updated
---> Package libungif.i386 0:4.1.3-1.el4.2 set to be http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/7/smeos/i386/CentOS/RPMS/fontconfig-2.2.3-7.centos4.i386.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/7/smeos/i386/CentOS/RPMS/fontconfig-2.2.3-7.centos4.i386.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/7/smeos/i386/CentOS/RPMS/fontconfig-2.2.3-7.centos4.i386.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/7/smeos/i386/CentOS/RPMS/fontconfig-2.2.3-7.centos4.i386.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/7/smeos/i386/CentOS/RPMS/fontconfig-2.2.3-7.centos4.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 450 fontconfig-2.2.3-7.centos4.i386.rpm: No such file or directory
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: CentOS/RPMS/fontconfig-2.2.3-7.centos4.i386.rpm from smeos: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
updated
---> Package perl-Tie-Cache-LRU.noarch 0:0.21-1.2.el4.rf set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Carp::Assert) for package: perl-Tie-Cache-LRU
--> Processing Dependency: libfontconfig.so.1 for package: xorg-x11-libs
--> Processing Dependency: perl(enum) for package: perl-Tie-Cache-LRU
--> Processing Dependency: libGL.so.1 for package: xorg-x11-libs
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for fontconfig to pack into transaction set.
yum update DCC.i386 LPRng.i386 apr.i386 clamav-db.i386 clamav.i386 clamd.i386 daemontools.i386 db4.i386 diald.i386 dovecot.i386 dstat.noarch e-smith-LPRng.noarch e-smith-apache.noarch e-smith-backup.noarch e-smith-base.i386 e-smith-dnscache.noarch e-smith-email.noarch e-smith-formmagick.noarch e-smith-grub.noarch e-smith-horde.noarch e-smith-hosts.noarch e-smith-imap.noarch e-smith-imp.noarch e-smith-ingo.noarch e-smith-ldap.noarch e-smith-lib.noarch e-smith-manager.noarch e-smith-mysql.noarch e-smith-netatalk.noarch e-smith-ntp.noarch e-smith-nutUPS.noarch e-smith-openssh.noarch e-smith-packetfilter.noarch e-smith-php.noarch e-smith-portforwarding.noarch e-smith-pptpd.noarch e-smith-proftpd.noarch e-smith-proxy.noarch e-smith-qmail.noarch e-smith-radiusd.noarch e-smith-runit.noarch e-smith-samba.noarch e-smith-tinydns.noarch e-smith-turba.noarch gzip.i386 horde.noarch htop.i386 imp-h3.noarch ingo-h3.noarch initscripts.i386 ipsvd.i386 kernel-smp.i686 kernel.i686 kmod-appletalk-smp.i686 kmod-appletalk.i686 kmod-ppp-smp.i686 kmod-ppp.i686 kmod-slip-smp.i686 kmod-slip.i686 libtool-libs.i386 maildrop.i386 mailfront.i386 mod_auth_external.i386 mod_auth_tkt.i386 oidentd.i386 perl-Archive-Tar.noarch perl-CGI-FormMagick.noarch perl-CGI-Persistent.noarch perl-Convert-BinHex.noarch perl-Error.noarch perl-File-MMagic.noarch perl-HTML-Parser.i386 perl-IO-Socket-SSL.noarch perl-IO-Zlib.noarch perl-IO-stringy.noarch perl-Locale-gettext.i386 perl-Mail-DKIM.noarch perl-Mail-DomainKeys.noarch perl-Mail-SPF-Query.noarch perl-MailTools.noarch perl-Net-DNS.i386 perl-Net-IPv4Addr.noarch perl-Net-Server.noarch perl-Text-Template.noarch perl-TimeDate.noarch pptpd.i386 proftpd.i386 qpsmtpd-plugins.noarch qpsmtpd.noarch razor-agents.i386 rp-pppoe.i386 runit.i386 smeserver-audittools.noarch smeserver-clamav.noarch smeserver-locale-de.noarch smeserver-locale-es.noarch smeserver-locale-fr.noarch smeserver-locale-it.noarch smeserver-qpsmtpd.noarch smeserver-release.noarch smeserver-spamassassin.noarch smeserver-support.noarch smeserver-yum.noarch spamassassin.i386 turba-h3.noarch tzdata.noarch ulogd.i386 whiptail.i386 failed: 256

The system needs to be reconfigured after adding or removing software, or applying updates.

Please click on the Reconfigure button at the bottom of this page to start the reconfiguration process. An automatic reboot will be initiated as part of this reconfiguration process

But the update seems to be done anyway so i did click to "Reconfigure", the server reset, all ok, but when i go to server-manager again i have the same updates to do, so the eirler update was not done, i repeat the process 3 times, and i cant get my system update, the only problem during update are the pasted on bold font. Can somebody helpme?
thks
bye

[lucho115]

i use , yum clean all , then upgrade the system and all ok,
thanks,
bye

[cubique]

i use , yum clean all , then upgrade the system and all ok,
thanks,
bye

I confirm, just follow this simple steps:

yum clean all
...this will clean some yum conf files and will reload the newest one from web

yum upgrade
... this will start to dig for latest updates/upgrades available on net, will download the headers for these packages then will propose you to Install/Upgrade those packages.

I have SME 7.1.3 and the download size is about 71M.
Good luck!

[antares2001]

So update from 7.1.3 to 7.2 is simply done by

# yum upgrade

?

No fresh install, no problems?

If I do not upgrade to 7.2, what are the problems I might face?

I ask this as it is essential for me, that the server works stable. As I administrate it over a far distance via VPN, I cannot simply go there and reinstall, so I need a reliable system.

Thank you in advance.

[cubique]

So update from 7.1.3 to 7.2 is simply done by

# yum upgrade

?

No fresh install, no problems?

If I do not upgrade to 7.2, what are the problems I might face?

I ask this as it is essential for me, that the server works stable. As I administrate it over a far distance via VPN, I cannot simply go there and reinstall, so I need a reliable system.

Thank you in advance.

I am not an expert in linux, nor an real sysadmin, all I've done was to follow and test some upgrade instruction that said that if you have trouble upgrading to 7.2 just do a yum clean all then yum upgrade.

The upgrade procedure takes about 15min, but will depends on your system and Inet connection.

The upgrade was clean, smooth, it just work without any trouble.
But always, make a backup before ;o)

[antares2001]

Yes! It just worked well.

Server upgraded, rebooted and was available again with all the settings I made before

Nice work. Big thanks to the SME server team. Keep doing such a good job.

[mmccarn]

Same here updating from 7.1.3 to 7.2:

• unable to "yum update" or "yum upgrade" (error on fontconfig-2.2.3-7.centos4.i386.rpm)
• yum clean all
• yum upgrade

Install: 32 package(s)
Update: 111 package(s)
Download: 72M

• signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

(Note: same behavior on a second system, except 31 packages to install and 112 packages to update...)

[Mangetout]

I had exactly the same problem - managed to work around it mostly by installing only selected updates, but the SpamAssassin one just wouldn't go.  The above mentioned method worked just fine.

Thanks!