I am running a Xen installation on a Centos-4.4 based test box, my desktop unit, and I am having intermittent problems installing certain pieces of software. Some time back I posted to this list regarding my inability to install Adobe Acrobat on this unit and was advised to essentially repackage the software and try again. This is beyond my present means of knowledge or time to acquire same and so left undone.
Now however I am having remarkably similar problems with two official Centos-4.4 updates, xorg-x11-xfs and openssh-server. Can anybody give me some clues as to what is going on and how I might correct this. I am sure that xen is involved in this somehow because I run four other servers with Centos-4.4 and none of them have displayed this problem.
This is what I am seeing when trying to update via yum:
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# yum update openssh-server -y Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to included packages only Finished Reducing CentOS-4 Testing to included packages only Finished Reducing CentOS-4 - Plus to included packages only Finished Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package openssh-server.i386 0:3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1 set to be updated --> Running transaction check
Dependencies Resolved
============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Updating: openssh-server i386 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1 update 208 k
Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 1 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 208 k Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction error: %pre(openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1
Updated: openssh-server.i386 0:3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1 Complete!
# yum update xorg-x11-xfs Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 centos-test 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 centosplus 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.2 MB 00:27 dag : ################################################## 5225/5225 Added 57 new packages, deleted 376 old in 7.53 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 32 kB 00:00 extras : ################################################## 124/124 Added 0 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.15 seconds Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to included packages only Finished Reducing CentOS-4 Testing to included packages only Finished Reducing CentOS-4 - Plus to included packages only Finished Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package xorg-x11-xfs.i386 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check
Dependencies Resolved
============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Updating: xorg-x11-xfs i386 6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 update 315 k
Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 1 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 315 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction error: %pre(xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
Updated: xorg-x11-xfs.i386 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 Complete!
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