Hiren Patel wrote:
hi,
maybe post your yum configuration file and repository configurations to
the list.
you are completely sure that this is a fedora 6 machine?
i would only imagine these kinds of problems when upgrading to far
distance versions of packages, like fedora 6 trying to use a 7
repository for updates or so.
have there been any unusual configurations to yum, or the like?
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 12:48 +0200, wu wei wrote:
Hello,
I have just started using a machine with a fresh Fedora 6
installation. I have confirmed that yum is configured to use the
standard set of repositories for this distro.
"yum update" fails with the following errors:
<snip 3,000+ lines similar to those below>
--> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) for package: pam
--> Processing Dependency: libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) for package: elfutils-libs
--> Processing Dependency: libkrb5.so.3()(64bit) for package: openssl
--> Processing Dependency: libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) for package: mkinitrd
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package krb5-libs.x86_64 0:1.5-21 set to be updated
---> Package glibc.i386 0:2.5-10.fc6 set to be updated
---> Package elfutils-libelf.x86_64 0:0.127-1.fc6 set to be updated
---> Package rpm-libs.x86_64 0:4.4.2-33.fc6 set to be updated
---> Package popt.x86_64 0:1.10.2-33.fc6 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
Error: Missing Dependency: audit-libs = 1.4.2-3.fc6 is needed by package audit
Error: Missing Dependency: elfutils-libs = 0.126-1.fc6 is needed by
package elfutils
Error: elfutils-libs conflicts with elfutils < 0.127-1.fc6
Error: Missing Dependency: audit-libs = 1.4.2-3.fc6 is needed by
package audit-libs-python
Error: Missing Dependency: libxml2 = 2.6.27 is needed by package libxml2-python
Error: elfutils-libelf conflicts with elfutils < 0.127-1.fc6
Error: Missing Dependency: elfutils-libelf = 0.126-1.fc6 is needed by
package elfutils
Error: Missing Dependency: rpm = 4.4.2-32 is needed by package rpm-python
Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
Error: Package elfutils-libs needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.1), this is not
available.
Error: Package procps needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2), this is not available.
Error: Package libsemanage needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4), this is not available.
Error: Package grep needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4), this is not available.
Error: Package less needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3), this is not available.
<snip 1,000 lines similar to the one above>
The command "yum upgrade" fails in similar fashion.
For errors such as...
"Error: Missing Dependency: audit-libs = 1.4.2-3.fc6 is needed by package audit"
...What do I do? I tried "yum install audit-libs" but that generates
hundreds of further similar errors.
For errors such as...
"Error: Package X needs Y, this is not available."
...I understand the essence of the message, i.e. that proceeding with
the update would break the existing installation of package X. I
understand that a common fix would be to uninstall all the packages
that would be broken by the update, proceed with the update, then
re-install the uninstalled packages as necessary. However I hesitate
to do that since there are over 1,000 packages affected.
What am I doing wrong?
The machine was set up by an offsite server hosting company who have
provided me with an ssh login.
rpm -V yum fedora-release
and post the result if any.
yum -d 15 update audit
and post the result.
At some stage there was some issue with elfutils and co, but this has
been sorted months ago. This suggests that the mirror chosen by yum is
not up2date.
- exclude the problem packages for now:
yum --exclude=audit --exclude=elfutils update
- if still a problem: clear yum's metadata cache
yum clean metadata dbcache
if still a problem: tell yum to use a current mirror {that you need to
find} backup the .repo so you can revert to it later.
For the repo, you can add in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo :
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://youclosestmirror/p/f/u/6/i386/
DaveT.
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