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    <div>On 12/2/20 11:36 PM, Phelps, Matthew
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                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at
                  16:09, Phelps, Matthew <<a href="mailto:mphelps@cfa.harvard.edu" target="_blank">mphelps@cfa.harvard.edu</a>>
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                      <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 2,
                        2020 at 3:43 PM Patrick Riehecky <<a href="mailto:riehecky@fnal.gov" target="_blank">riehecky@fnal.gov</a>>
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                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Some folks
                        may continue running EL6 based systems, but we
                        need to make<br>
                        sure it is obvious that we're not providing any
                        security updates. <br>
                        Moving the repos off the mirror network will
                        provide a hint to folks<br>
                        doing a simple 'yum update' that something is
                        not the way it once was.<br>
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                      <div>Whoa! </div>
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                      <div>What will happen if I run a "yum update" on a
                        CO6 machine? We have it run automatically at
                        reboot and I need to know what will happen so I
                        can see if the rest of the scripts we run at
                        startup will be OK.</div>
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                      <div>Yes we are updating them, but it's hard to do
                        when you can't go onsite due to COVID.</div>
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                <div>You will get every system running through messages
                  like this<br>
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                <div>[root@linode01 ~]# yum update<br>
                  Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror<br>
                  Setting up Update Process<br>
                  Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile<br>
                  epel/metalink                                        
                                                                       
                   | 2.5 kB     00:00<br>
                  epel-testing/metalink                                
                                                                       
                   | 2.6 kB     00:00<br>
                   * base: <a href="http://mirror.dal10.us.leaseweb.net" target="_blank">mirror.dal10.us.leaseweb.net</a><br>
                   * epel: <a href="http://d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net" target="_blank">d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net</a><br>
                   * epel-testing: <a href="http://d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net" target="_blank">d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net</a><br>
                   * extras: <a href="http://mirror.netdepot.com" target="_blank">mirror.netdepot.com</a><br>
                   * updates: <a href="http://mirrors.usinternet.com" target="_blank">mirrors.usinternet.com</a><br>
                  <a href="http://mirror.dal10.us.leaseweb.net/centos/6.10/os/i386/repodata/repomd.xml" target="_blank">http://mirror.dal10.us.leaseweb.net/centos/6.10/os/i386/repodata/repomd.xml</a>:
                  [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL
                  returned error: 404 Not Found"<br>
                  Trying other mirror.<br>
                  To address this issue please refer to the below wiki
                  article<br>
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                  <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/yum-errors" target="_blank">https://wiki.centos.org/yum-errors</a><br>
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                  If above article doesn't help to resolve this issue
                  please use <a href="https://bugs.centos.org/" target="_blank">https://bugs.centos.org/</a>.<br>
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                <div><a href="http://bay.uchicago.edu/centos/6.10/extras/i386/repodata/repomd.xml" target="_blank">http://bay.uchicago.edu/centos/6.10/extras/i386/repodata/repomd.xml</a>:
                  [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL
                  returned error: 404 Not Found"<br>
                  Trying other mirror.</div>
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                <div>until it finds some mirror which will work (that
                  one mirror seems to be updating for everyone in the
                  world so is very slow).<br>
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                <div>or it will do the following:</div>
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                <div>[root@linode01 ~]# yum clean all<br>
                  Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror<br>
                  Cleaning repos: base cr epel epel-testing extras
                  updates<br>
                  Cleaning up Everything<br>
                  Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors<br>
                  [root@linode01 ~]# yum update<br>
                  Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror<br>
                  Setting up Update Process<br>
                  Determining fastest mirrors<br>
                  YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp,
                  http[s] or file.<br>
                   Eg. Invalid release/repo/arch combination/<br>
                  removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors:
                  /var/cache/yum/i386/6/base/mirrorlist.txt<br>
                  Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base<br>
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                <div>[root@linode01 ~]# echo $?<br>
                  1</div>
                <div>[root@linode01 ~]# yum list all<br>
                  Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror<br>
                  Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile<br>
                  YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp,
                  http[s] or file.<br>
                   Eg. Invalid release/repo/arch combination/<br>
                  removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors:
                  /var/cache/yum/i386/6/base/mirrorlist.txt<br>
                  Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base</div>
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                <div>so basically the system can not find anything/do
                  anything until a working mirror is there.<br>
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          <div>I'm not really very happy with this throwing an error.</div>
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          <div>I get it. People need to upgrade. But breaking things
            that are part of automated processes is a crappy way to get
            the message across.</div>
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          <div>As I mentioned, upgrades will take some time still, and
            now I have more work to deal with our unupgraded systems, so
            now it will take even longer to upgrade.</div>
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          <div>Thanks a bunch.</div>
          <div><br>
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          <div>(Sorry for the sarcasm, but this is not a nice way to
            deal with the situation).</div>
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    <p>Welcome to the club. Now wait for the free membership to the "
      You had _years_ advanced notice." to come, it's on its way.</p>
    <p><br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I hear ya brother.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><p>
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    <p>wolfy "I still have a few hundred remote desktops to upgrade (
      and could not do that due to remote access restrictions collateral
      to Covid moving around restrictions )"<br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We are not alone. That's no solace though.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><p>
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