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 GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89 _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
