Re: glibc update, missing /sbin/ldconfig requirement

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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:52:36PM -0400, James Antill wrote:
> Jack Neely <jjneely@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:35:53AM -0400, James Antill wrote:
> >> Jack Neely <jjneely@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Folks,
> >> >
> >> > Red Hat recently released a new glibc version for RHEL 5.  My i386
> >> > machines have updated normally, but all of my x86_64 machines will not
> >> > update.  We are running glibc 2.5-81.el5_8.2 and trying to upgrade to
> >> > 2.5-81.el5_8.4 and Yum complains that it cannot find /sbin/ldconfig for
> >> > all of the packages that require it.
> >> >
> >> > Here is the Yum error log:
> >> >
> >> >     http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jjneely/yum.out
> >> >
> >> > A yum -d5 update glibc log is here:
> >> >
> >> >     http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jjneely/yum.out.xz
> >> >
> >> > I don't see anything wrong with the new glibc packages.  rpmdiff shows
> >> > that there aren't many changes.  This is the RHEL 5 version of yum
> >> > (yum-3.2.22-39.el5).  Any insights as to what has gone wrong?
> >> 
> >>  All the above data makes it look like yum thinks the new glibc
> >> package aren't providing a lot of the filedeps that previous versions
> >> were.
> >> 
> >>  What does "repoquery -ql glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.4" say?
> >
> > It looks pretty normal.  /sbin/ldconfig included.  I did use --plugins
> > to enable RHN.
> >
> >     http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jjneely/repoquery.out
> 
>  Not sure then, as the data in the first directly contradicts this. If
> both operations are repeatable, I guess you'll have to start adding
> print statements to find out WTF is going on.
> 
>  I'd try excluding all the other versions of glibc, to cut down on the
> noise and then find out what is happening when the depsolver looks for
> /sbin/ldconfig (and just before that, when it should check that it
> exists in the upgrade).

One data point that seems conspicuous is that this is through an RHN
Sat.  Where if I point a test box through to my Yum repos built for the
build system (same content as the RHN Sat channels) things work just
fine.

Thanks for the help!
Jack

-- 
Jack Neely <jjneely@xxxxxxxx>
Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services
Office of Information Technology, NC State University
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