[CentOS] Yum update failure (was a digest reference)

Mon Jan 25 23:12:07 UTC 2010
Tobias Weisserth <tobias.weisserth at gmail.com>

Hi,

I think I have found the problem. It's rather annoying. My host is a vps
hosted at alfahosting.de. They have migrated my guest to another host system
recently as there seemed to be problems with the old host. By migrating they
seem to have messed up the RPM package database and some other things that
seem to be filesystem related. That really sucks. I have opened a support
ticket with them and told them what I think about such an amateur service.

I really hope they can restore the state of my host to the way it has been.
I have backups of the most critical configuration files and data but I lack
the time to set up another host from scratch right now. It's a hobby, not a
job... And I was depending on them to do THEIR JOB right...

regards and thanks for the ideas,

Tobias

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>wrote:

> 2010/1/25 Tobias Weisserth <tobias.weisserth at gmail.com>:
> > Thanks for the hint, but still no luck:
> > [root at hostname ~]# yum clean all
> > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
> > Cleaning up Everything
> > Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
> > [root at hostname ~]# yum update
> > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
> > Determining fastest mirrors
> >  * addons: mirror.netcologne.de
> >  * atomic: www4.atomicorp.com
> >  * base: mirror.netcologne.de
> >  * centosplus: mirror.netcologne.de
> >  * extras: mirror.netcologne.de
> >  * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
> >  * updates: mirror.netcologne.de
> > addons
> >
> >    |  951 B     00:00
> > addons/primary
> >
> >    |  201 B     00:00
> > atomic
> >
> >    | 1.9 kB     00:00
> > atomic/primary_db
> >
> >     | 304 kB     00:00
> > base
> >
> >    | 2.1 kB     00:00
> > base/primary_db
> >
> >     | 1.6 MB     00:00
> > centosplus
> >
> >    |  951 B     00:00
> > centosplus/primary
> >
> >    | 157 kB     00:00
> > centosplus
> >
> >                   183/183
> > extras
> >
> >    | 1.1 kB     00:00
> > extras/primary
> >
> >    | 107 kB     00:00
> > extras
> >
> >                   325/325
> > rpmforge
> >
> >    | 1.1 kB     00:00
> > rpmforge/primary
> >
> >    | 3.6 MB     00:00
> > rpmforge
> >
> >               10064/10064
> > updates
> >
> >     | 1.9 kB     00:00
> > updates/primary_db
> >
> >    | 459 kB     00:00
> > utterramblings
> >
> >    |  951 B     00:00
> > utterramblings/primary
> >
> >    |  23 kB     00:00
> > utterramblings
> >
> >                     69/69
> > Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base
> > Finished
> > Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Plus
> > Finished
> > Reducing CentOS-5 - Plus to included packages only
> > Finished
> > Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Updates
> > Finished
> > 556 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Resolving Dependencies
> > --> Running transaction check
> > ---> Package util-linux.i386 0:2.13-0.52.el5_4.1 set to be updated
> > --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) for package: util-linux
> > --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) for package: util-linux
> > --> Processing Dependency: rtld(GNU_HASH) for package: util-linux
> > --> Processing Dependency: libutil.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) for package:
> util-linux
> > --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) for package: util-linux
> > --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6 for package: util-linux
> > --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) for package: util-linux
> > --> Processing Dependency: libcrypt.so.1 for package: util-linux
> > --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) for package: util-linux
> > --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) for package: util-linux
> > --> Processing Dependency: libutil.so.1 for package: util-linux
> > --> Running transaction check
> > ---> Package glibc.i686 0:2.5-42.el5_4.3 set to be updated
> > --> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5-42.el5_4.3 for package:
> glibc
> > --> Running transaction check
> > ---> Package glibc-common.i386 0:2.5-42.el5_4.3 set to be updated
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Dependencies Resolved
> >
> ===================================================================================================================================================================================
> >  Package                                      Arch
> >       Version                                           Repository
> >                     Size
> >
> ===================================================================================================================================================================================
> > Updating:
> >  util-linux                                   i386
> >       2.13-0.52.el5_4.1                                 updates
> >                     1.8 M
> > Installing for dependencies:
> >  glibc                                        i686
> >       2.5-42.el5_4.3                                    updates
> >                     5.2 M
> >  glibc-common                                 i386
> >       2.5-42.el5_4.3                                    updates
> >                      16 M
> > Transaction Summary
> >
> ===================================================================================================================================================================================
> > Install      2 Package(s)
> > Update       1 Package(s)
> > Remove       0 Package(s)
> > Total download size: 24 M
> > Is this ok [y/N]: y
> > Downloading Packages:
> > (1/3): util-linux-2.13-0.52.el5_4.1.i386.rpm
> >
> >    | 1.8 MB     00:00
> > (2/3): glibc-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i686.rpm
> >
> >    | 5.2 MB     00:00
> > (3/3): glibc-common-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i386.rpm
> >
> >     |  16 MB     00:02
> >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Total
> >
>  8.2
> > MB/s |  24 MB     00:02
> > Running rpm_check_debug
> > Running Transaction Test
> > Finished Transaction Test
> > Transaction Test Succeeded
> > Running Transaction
> >   Installing     : glibc-common
> >
> >                        1/4
> > Error unpacking rpm package glibc-common-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i386
> > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/i18n: cpio: mkdir
> >   Installing     : glibc
> >
> >                       2/4
> > Error unpacking rpm package glibc-2.5-42.el5_4.3.i686
> > warning: /etc/localtime created as /etc/localtime.rpmnew
> > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /lib/i686: cpio: mkdir
> >   Updating       : util-linux
> >
> >                        3/4
> > Error unpacking rpm package util-linux-2.13-0.52.el5_4.1.i386
> > error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> > /usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo;4b5e0c03: cpio: mkdir
> > Failed:
> >   glibc.i686 0:2.5-42.el5_4.3                           glibc-common.i386
> > 0:2.5-42.el5_4.3                           util-linux.i386
> > 0:2.13-0.52.el5_4.1
> > Complete!
> > I am at a loss here. What's wrong?
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Tobias
>
> Is disk and hardware working ok?
>
> --
> Eero
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