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Updates fail. Error 256

Offline ltwally

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Updates fail. Error 256
« on: July 12, 2008, 07:09:56 PM »
We have an older SME server, running 7.1.3.  It had been all but decommissioned until our main server had both drives fry, simultaneously.

Anyways, I've been trying to run the updates on this thing, and it keeps bombing out.  I've tried the following console commands:
 yum clean metadata
 yum clean all
 yum update


When I do that last one, it finds a bunch of updates (~350), goes through what appears to be a download cycle... and then reports "no new rpms installed.  no further commands required." or something to that extent.

When I try to run the updates from system-manager, it acts like it's actually installed them.  But after a reboot, the same updates are listed as needing to be installed.  I checked today's yum log, and find the following:

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2007-05-14 18:41:53.116294500 Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: smeaddons
2007-05-14 18:41:53.116300500 failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-14 18:41:53.116304500 Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-14 18:41:53.134367500 yum list available status 256
2007-05-14 18:43:03.534425500 Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: smeaddons
2007-05-14 18:43:03.534431500 failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-14 18:43:03.534435500 Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-14 18:43:03.571553500 yum grouplist available status 256
2007-05-14 18:44:15.068426500 Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: smeaddons
2007-05-14 18:44:15.068432500 failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-14 18:44:15.068438500 Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-14 18:44:15.096500500 yum grouplist installed status 256
2007-05-14 18:45:25.486347500 Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: smeaddons
2007-05-14 18:45:25.486416500 failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-14 18:45:25.486504500 Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-14 18:45:25.537559500 yum list updates status 256
2007-05-14 18:46:35.913700500 Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: smeaddons
2007-05-14 18:46:35.913709500 failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-14 18:46:35.913715500 Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-14 18:46:35.933746500 yum grouplist updates status 256
2007-05-14 18:50:23.458905500 Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: smeaddons
2007-05-14 18:50:23.458910500 failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-14 18:50:23.458914500 Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-14 18:50:23.520647500 yum list available status 256
2007-05-14 10:44:13.298328500 Error: No Groups on which to run command
2007-05-14 10:44:13.347089500 yum grouplist available status 256
2007-05-14 10:44:15.132850500 Error: No Groups on which to run command
2007-05-14 10:44:15.264152500 yum grouplist installed status 256
2007-05-14 10:44:18.523215500 Error: No Groups on which to run command
2007-05-14 10:44:18.549047500 yum grouplist updates status 256
2007-05-14 11:06:22.623178500 Error: No Groups on which to run command
2007-05-14 11:06:22.651383500 yum grouplist available status 256
2007-05-14 11:06:25.225697500 Error: No Groups on which to run command
2007-05-14 11:06:25.278741500 yum grouplist installed status 256
2007-05-14 11:06:28.456635500 Error: No Groups on which to run command
2007-05-14 11:06:28.487174500 yum grouplist updates status 256
2007-05-14 11:12:35.290121500 Error: No Groups on which to run command
2007-05-14 11:12:35.317145500 yum grouplist available status 256
2007-05-14 11:12:36.737997500 Error: No Groups on which to run command
2007-05-14 11:12:36.789576500 yum grouplist installed status 256
2007-05-14 11:12:39.327150500 Error: No Groups on which to run command
2007-05-14 11:12:39.353791500 yum grouplist updates status 256
2007-05-14 11:19:51.490110500 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:19:51.490115500 Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:19:51.545410500 yum list available status 256
2007-05-14 11:20:11.886327500 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:20:11.886417500 Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:20:11.913750500 yum grouplist available status 256
2007-05-14 11:20:33.695854500 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:20:33.695859500 Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:20:33.715990500 yum grouplist installed status 256
2007-05-14 11:20:54.098290500 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:20:54.098296500 Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:20:54.158277500 yum list updates status 256
2007-05-14 11:21:15.000700500 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:21:15.000706500 Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:21:15.028668500 yum grouplist updates status 256
2007-05-14 11:24:46.656021500 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:24:46.656027500 Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:24:46.707168500 yum list available status 256
2007-05-14 11:25:07.062505500 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:25:07.062511500 Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:25:07.090497500 yum grouplist available status 256
2007-05-14 11:25:29.325604500 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:25:29.325611500 Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:25:29.352908500 yum grouplist installed status 256
2007-05-14 11:28:36.495763500 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:28:36.495770500 Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:28:36.549300500 yum list available status 256
2007-05-14 11:28:56.898874500 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:28:56.898960500 Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:28:56.936357500 yum grouplist available status 256
2007-05-14 11:29:18.659508500 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:29:18.659513500 Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:29:18.685527500 yum grouplist installed status 256
2007-05-14 11:29:39.074959500 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:29:39.074965500 Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:29:39.099677500 yum list updates status 256
2007-05-14 11:29:59.484889500 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:29:59.484895500 Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
2007-05-14 11:29:59.512878500 yum grouplist updates status 256
2007-05-15 08:50:12.857258500 Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: smeaddons
2007-05-15 08:50:12.878543500 failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-15 08:50:12.878549500 Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-15 08:50:12.884594500 yum list available status 256
2007-05-15 08:51:23.259982500 Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: smeaddons
2007-05-15 08:51:23.259986500 failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-15 08:51:23.259990500 Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-15 08:51:23.296110500 yum grouplist available status 256
2007-05-15 08:52:34.998184500 Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: smeaddons
2007-05-15 08:52:34.998189500 failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
2007-05-15 08:52:34.998193500 Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from smeaddons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.


(There's actually quite a bit more of those errors in a cycle... but it exceedes the per-post limit)

Anyone know what to do to get this sucker actually installing the updates?

Offline Frank VB

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Re: Updates fail. Error 256
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2008, 08:04:10 PM »
You could try to download the SME 7.3 ISO file, burn it on a CD and upgrade from the CD. But I'd advice you to first backup your replacement server with the backup to USB function (login as admin on the console) if there's important data on it.

If that works, you can try then to apply the updates.

You could also consider posting your problems in the bugtracker.

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Re: Updates fail. Error 256
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2008, 04:36:54 AM »
We have an older SME server, running 7.1.3.  

--SNIP--

Anyone know what to do to get this sucker actually installing the updates?

You may need to review some of these steps...

http://wiki.contribs.org/Updating_to_SME_7.2
Regards,
William

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Offline ltwally

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Re: Updates fail. Error 256
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2008, 08:05:08 AM »
That did the trick.  Thank you very much!!