Topic: Yum update failing the whole weekend..

[shawnbishop]

Thanks Stefano, looks promising..I will try..

[CharlieBrady]

Did a new installation of 7.5.1 on Firday night, and I have been trying to updates and install software the whole weekend, and the server goes live today..I keep gettting the following errors

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/postgresql-libs-7.4.30-1.el4_8.2.i386.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found

This is a very different error, likely due to a different reason. You previously reported a timeout.

This error (404) indicates a mismatch between the repository metadata and the files actually contained in the repository. The timeout represents a network layer problem, either a repository outage, or a stalled connection due to PMTU discovery problems.

Google for 'ICMP PMTU discovery' to learn about PMTU discovery problems (which will cause short tcp connections to work OK, but larger ones to stall).

[cactus]

(1/5): xorg-x11-Mesa-libG 100% |=========================| 390 kB    00:02     
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.68.i386.rpm: [Errno -1] Package does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.

That seems to indicate that you are hitting mirrors that are not in sync. Perhaps CentOS is having mirror issues? You could check here: http://mirror-status.centos.org/

[Gert]

I had the same problem, also tried different ISPs, it turned out that it was a DNS error. I manually changed my DNS to google's DNS ( 8.8.8.8 ) and the update worked.

[cactus]

I had the same problem, also tried different ISPs, it turned out that it was a DNS error. I manually changed my DNS to google's DNS ( 8.8.8.8 ) and the update worked.

So you did configure a DNS server for SME Server? Is that really required? SME Server is perfectly capable of resolving addresses itself without the need of a external DNS server.

[shawnbishop]

I am really stumped, I have SME at multiple clients, all different ISP's..

and I get the following.. I am stumped, I actually tried reinstalling a machine..

(28/29): postgresql-libs- 100% |=========================| 150 kB    00:00     
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/postgresql-libs-7.4.30-1.el4_8.2.i386.rpm: [Errno -1] Package does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
(29/29): glibc-common-2.3 100% |=========================|  16 MB    00:40     
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/glibc-common-2.3.4-2.54.i386.rpm: [Errno -1] Package does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.


Error Downloading Packages:
  php-pear - 4.3.9-3.31.i386: failure: RPMS/php-pear-4.3.9-3.31.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  ntp - 4.2.0.a.20040617-12.el4.i386: failure: RPMS/ntp-4.2.0.a.20040617-12.el4.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  net-snmp - 5.1.2-20.el4.i386: failure: RPMS/net-snmp-5.1.2-20.el4.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  samba-client - 3.0.33-0.30.el4.i386: failure: RPMS/samba-client-3.0.33-0.30.el4.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  libuser - 0.52.5-1.1.el4_8.1.i386: failure: RPMS/libuser-0.52.5-1.1.el4_8.1.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  openldap - 2.2.13-12.el4_8.4.i386: failure: RPMS/openldap-2.2.13-12.el4_8.4.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  net-snmp-libs - 5.1.2-20.el4.i386: failure: RPMS/net-snmp-libs-5.1.2-20.el4.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  rpm-build - 4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.i386: failure: RPMS/rpm-build-4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  glibc - 2.3.4-2.54.i686: failure: RPMS/glibc-2.3.4-2.54.i686.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  glibc-common - 2.3.4-2.54.i386: failure: RPMS/glibc-common-2.3.4-2.54.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  coreutils - 5.2.1-37.el4.i386: failure: RPMS/coreutils-5.2.1-37.el4.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  krb5-libs - 1.3.4-62.el4_8.3.i386: failure: RPMS/krb5-libs-1.3.4-62.el4_8.3.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  gnupg - 1.2.6-9.el4_8.1.i386: failure: RPMS/gnupg-1.2.6-9.el4_8.1.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  python - 2.3.4-14.10.el4.i386: failure: RPMS/python-2.3.4-14.10.el4.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  freetype - 2.1.9-17.el4_8.1.i386: failure: RPMS/freetype-2.1.9-17.el4_8.1.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  rpm-libs - 4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.i386: failure: RPMS/rpm-libs-4.3.3-33_nonptl.el4_8.1.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  tcsh - 6.13-10.el4_8.1.i386: failure: RPMS/tcsh-6.13-10.el4_8.1.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  postgresql-libs - 7.4.30-1.el4_8.2.i386: failure: RPMS/postgresql-libs-7.4.30-1.el4_8.2.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  lvm2 - 2.02.42-9.el4.i386: failure: RPMS/lvm2-2.02.42-9.el4.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  xorg-x11-xfs - 6.8.2-1.EL.68.i386: failure: RPMS/xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.68.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  mysql - 4.1.22-2.el4_8.4.i386: failure: RPMS/mysql-4.1.22-2.el4_8.4.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  device-mapper - 1.02.28-3.el4.i386: failure: RPMS/device-mapper-1.02.28-3.el4.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  samba-common - 3.0.33-0.30.el4.i386: failure: RPMS/samba-common-3.0.33-0.30.el4.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  php - 4.3.9-3.31.i386: failure: RPMS/php-4.3.9-3.31.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  bash - 3.0-27.el4.i386: failure: RPMS/bash-3.0-27.el4.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  samba - 3.0.33-0.30.el4.i386: failure: RPMS/samba-3.0.33-0.30.el4.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  tzdata - 2011g-1.el4.noarch: failure: RPMS/tzdata-2011g-1.el4.noarch.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  xorg-x11-libs - 6.8.2-1.EL.68.i386: failure: RPMS/xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.68.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
  libxml2 - 2.6.16-12.8.i386: failure: RPMS/libxml2-2.6.16-12.8.i386.rpm from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
[root@sbs-srv ~]#

[Stefano]

did you setup a centos test machine and tried to update?

did you follow Charlie's advice?

IMHO there's something wrong in wan connection from your country (SA IIRC) to centos' mirrors..

[shawnbishop]

Good day Stefano

I think you may be right..I have an old Centos 4 box that has the same problems..

[Gert]

So you did configure a DNS server for SME Server? Is that really required? SME Server is perfectly capable of resolving addresses itself without the need of a external DNS server.

The automatically obtained DNS server did not resolve mirrors.centos.org to the correct IP address. maybe it changed and the DNS server still needed to update. By using 8.8.8.8 as DNS server it resolved correctly and I was able to update.