Topic: YUM update not working

[lguzman]

Hi to all, it seems that I a requesting assistance until I get stable.
I have to admit that I don’t know how I damage the yum, but I admit it was me. I was trying to install awstats and I did something wrong in those days. After that I notice that every time that I ran yum in server-manager there was never updates. When I ran yum in ssh command line I notice that it was pointing that could not find an xml witch I do not recall  the exact name. the thing is that I follow some step and then I get errors. I do not want to damage my server that been running nice from 2005 with sme.

I forgot to mention that the VPN does not work but I hope when I fix yum, there is an upgrade to fix it. If not you will se me requesting help from you gentlemen.

This is a print of my error

==============================================================
WARNING: Additional commands may be required after running yum
==============================================================
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     818 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 443e1821
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages from CentOS - os
Finished
Excluding Packages from CentOS - updates
Finished
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
error: rpmdbNextIterator




i did tried a yum clean all, but proplem persist.

i also tried
 yum update dbus dbus-glib smeserver-support smeserver-yum  yum yum-plugin-fastest-mirror python-sqlite
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

well and other things that i found on forum. 
if i misssing information please replay or correct me if i posting someting wrong,
TY in advance

[dmay]

Try this:

http://wiki.contribs.org/AddingSoftware#Restoring_Default_Yum_Repositories

Darrell

[lguzman]

Darrell thank you for your fast responce. i tried and i do not get any error. but it keep displaying noting to update.

# cd /home/e-smith/db/
# mv yum_repositories yum_repositories.po
# /etc/e-smith/events/actions/initialize-default-databases
Migrating existing database configuration
Migrating existing database accounts
Migrating existing database domains
Migrating existing database hosts
Migrating existing database networks
Migrating existing database yum_updates
Migrating existing database backups
Migrating existing database yum_available
Migrating existing database yum_installed
Creating database yum_repositories and setting defaults
Migrating existing database mailpatterns
Migrating existing database spamassassin
# expand-template /etc/yum.conf
# yum update
==============================================================
WARNING: Additional commands may be required after running yum
==============================================================
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages from CentOS - updates
Finished
Excluding Packages from CentOS - os
Finished
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
================================================================
No new rpms were installed. No additional commands are required.
================================================================



but we are better without the error.
TY

[cactus]

Darrell thank you for your fast responce. i tried and i do not get any error. but it keep displaying noting to update.

This means your system is at the current state and there are no updates to be installed.

What is the error worth your VPN connection? My guess is it might be a configuration/setup option. Could you specify some details as the VPN method you use, ip ranges and layout and of course the error or the symptoms perhaps we can help you solve the VPN issue as well.

[chris burnat]

This means your system is at the current state and there are no updates to be installed.

I do not mean to barge in, but we better make sure that this system is updating, the original post states:

After that I notice that every time that I ran yum in server-manager there was never updates

And the last post from Iguzman suggest that nothing has been updated after resetting the repos.

The last lot of updates available are:
php.i386                                 4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-domxml.i386                          4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-gd.i386                              4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-imap.i386                            4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-ldap.i386                            4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-mbstring.i386                        4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-mysql.i386                           4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-pear.i386                            4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386                 6.8.2-1.EL.31          updates         
xorg-x11-libs.i386                       6.8.2-1.EL.31          updates         

You can check in yum/yum  logs if they are there, or run this command from the CL as root:

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rpm -qa --last | head -12

[cactus]

I do not mean to barge in, but we better make sure that this system is updating, the original post states:And the last post from Iguzman suggest that nothing has been updated after resetting the repos.

The last lot of updates available are:
php.i386                                 4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-domxml.i386                          4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-gd.i386                              4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-imap.i386                            4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-ldap.i386                            4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-mbstring.i386                        4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-mysql.i386                           4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
php-pear.i386                            4.3.9-3.22.9           updates         
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386                 6.8.2-1.EL.31          updates         
xorg-x11-libs.i386                       6.8.2-1.EL.31          updates         

You can check in yum/yum  logs if they are there, or run this command from the CL as root:

Code: [Select]

rpm -qa --last | head -12

The original post used the incorrect repository configuration data. I assumed that using the correct data no updates were available. AFAIK the system checks for updates after a change has been made to the enabled and disabled repositories per server-manager. It will not do this with command line changes. You can either force this from the command line, which the user did or wait for 24 hours for the cron to do it's work and actualize the list of updates.

To be sure you could clear all data cached by yum and try the update command again:

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yum clean all
yum update
IMHO this should renew the data and install available updates.

[lguzman]

Like always I’ll like to start tank you guys for your assistance.

The VPN was working fine since 2005, even when I did the upgrade first to sme 7.1 but I can’t tell if it was the upgrade to 7.2 that created the problem. My internals IP range are 192.186.X.X and I tried to access from public IP and also from a network with a range of 172.16.2.X. my concern is that there is long time that I don’t see update for spamassist or any other contribs.

I ran  rpm -qa --last | head -20 I added few more line until I found something related to the PPP for you guys can see if I have the latest ones.

smeserver-awstats-1.2-5.el4.sme               Sun 23 Sep 2007 05:01:07 PM AST
awstats-6.6-1.el4.rf                          Sun 23 Sep 2007 05:01:05 PM AST
sarg-2.2.1-1.el4.rf                           Sat 22 Sep 2007 11:18:02 PM AST
sme-crontab_manager-1.2-3                     Sat 22 Sep 2007 09:59:15 PM AST
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.31             Fri 21 Sep 2007 04:41:12 PM AST
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.31                   Fri 21 Sep 2007 04:41:10 PM AST
php-4.3.9-3.22.9                              Fri 21 Sep 2007 04:41:08 PM AST
php-mbstring-4.3.9-3.22.9                     Fri 21 Sep 2007 04:41:06 PM AST
php-gd-4.3.9-3.22.9                           Fri 21 Sep 2007 04:41:06 PM AST
jwhois-3.2.2-6.EL4.1                          Fri 21 Sep 2007 04:41:06 PM AST
php-pear-4.3.9-3.22.9                         Fri 21 Sep 2007 04:41:04 PM AST
php-ldap-4.3.9-3.22.9                         Fri 21 Sep 2007 04:41:04 PM AST
php-mysql-4.3.9-3.22.9                        Fri 21 Sep 2007 04:41:03 PM AST
php-domxml-4.3.9-3.22.9                       Fri 21 Sep 2007 04:41:03 PM AST
compat-db-4.1.25-9                            Fri 21 Sep 2007 04:40:59 PM AST
php-imap-4.3.9-3.22.9                         Fri 21 Sep 2007 04:40:58 PM AST
kmod-appletalk-1.0-2.2.6.9_55.0.6.EL          Tue 18 Sep 2007 08:17:46 PM AST
kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.0.6.EL                    Tue 18 Sep 2007 08:17:29 PM AST
perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.07-2.el4.rf              Tue 18 Sep 2007 08:17:23 PM AST
kmod-ppp-1.0.2-2.2.6.9_55.0.6.EL              Tue 18 Sep 2007 08:17:23 PM AST

today I did yum update to check if I have something more to add but get something new

==============================================================
WARNING: Additional commands may be required after running yum
==============================================================
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/smeserver/releases/7/smeaddons/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 7: No such file or directory
Trying other mirror.
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
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/smeserver/releases/7/smeupdates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 7: No such file or directory
Trying other mirror.
smeupdates                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
Determining fastest mirrors
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 133 kB    00:01
sqlite cache needs updating, reading in metadata
updates   : ################################################## 445/445
Excluding Packages from CentOS - updates
Finished
Excluding Packages from CentOS - os
Finished
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
================================================================
No new rpms were installed. No additional commands are required.
================================================================


Please I’m not too tech , so I do not know if I’m giving you the information in the right way, so any advice will be welcome.

[chris burnat]

You server is fully up to date, last successful upgradde has taken place on Fri 21 Sep 2007 04:41:12 PM AST.
So you or someone else must has performed these operations, SME does not perform automatic updates.
Since this upgrade, you have installed:
sme-crontab_manager-1.2-3                     Sat 22 Sep 2007 09:59:15 PM AST
smeserver-awstats-1.2-5.el4.sme              Sun 23 Sep 2007 05:01:07 PM AST
awstats-6.6-1.el4.rf                                   Sun 23 Sep 2007 05:01:05 PM AST
sarg-2.2.1-1.el4.rf                                     Sat 22 Sep 2007 11:18:02 PM AST

Cactus assessment was correct.

Edited:
As regards your VPN access issue, have you checked the Wikis"
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:User_Manual:Chapter1#VPN_Access

Also check:
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3427
and related Bug #3426

Best would be to open another topic in the sme7 section, this will facilitate search at a later stage, one issue per topic.
Hope it helps.