Hi,
I've been trying to sort this out for the past week. I had a RedHat 7.3 desktop install with a disk dying on it. The desktop has two disks on it - one configured with /, /usr and /boot (this was the bad disk) and the second had /var and /home. I obtained a replacement disk and initially tried copying the /, /usr and /boot filesystems to the new disk but this ended up being a problem. In the end I just did an install of CentOS 3.3 (I already had some CDs for this) but I didn't reformat /var and /home. Since the install I've been fighting with dependencies while trying to do a yum update and I suspect it is to do with the rpm databases (being in /var). The dependency that I am having real problems with at the moment is initscripts and kbd. I have tried to use yum update but I get:
. . Resolving dependencies .conflict between initscripts and kbd
If I do yum list initscripts* kbd* I get: . . Looking in Available Packages: Name Arch Version Repo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- initscripts i386 7.31.22.EL-2.centos base
Looking in Installed Packages: Name Arch Version Repo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- initscripts i386 7.31.16.EL-1.centos.0 db kbd i386 1.08-10.2 db kbdconfig i386 1.9.15-2 db
I have tried yum remove kbd so that I can update initscripts (and maybe get past the kbd problem) but get this:
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-3 - Addons Server: CentOS-3 - Base Server: CentOS-3 - Extras Server: CentOS-3 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies Dependencies resolved I will do the following: [erase: kbd 1.08-10.2.i386] Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages Running test transaction: Test transaction complete, Success! error reading information on service keytable: No such file or directory error: %trigger(kbd-1.08-10.2) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Erased: kbd 1.08-10.2.i386 Transaction(s) Complete
If I use rpm -e --noscripts kbd it appears to remove kbd but I am still unable to update initscirpts as there is still a conflict showing between the packages.
This is what I have at this stage:
yum list initscripts* kbd* . . Looking in Available Packages: Name Arch Version Repo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- initscripts i386 7.31.22.EL-2.centos base kbd i386 1.08-10.2 base
Looking in Installed Packages: Name Arch Version Repo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- initscripts i386 7.31.16.EL-1.centos.0 db kbdconfig i386 1.9.15-2 db
If I now try to update initscripts I get: yum update initscripts . . Resolving dependencies .conflict between initscripts and kbd
At this stage I am trying to decide whether I need to try to install again from scratch. I also tried rebuilding the rpm database after removing the /var/lib/rpm/__db* files.
Can someone make any suggestions as to what else I can try, please?
Thanks for your time, Wayne
error reading information on service keytable: No such file or directory
The first error seems like it's not a dependancy problem, but a missing file one.
If I were you, I would reinstall CentOS with the old /var not mounted (or mounted in something like /oldvar) and copy the necessary files afterwards (I guess you'd like to retain only your web pages and databases).
This way minimum amount of problems will be ensured. However there may be others issues while upgrading database files, since change in MySQL (or PostgreSQL) versions will render those imcompatible.
-- sukru
Sukru,
Thanks for your reply. I think I have it sorted out now. I found a backup copy of the etc directory with rc.d/init.d/keytable script in it. I copied it to /etc/rc.d/init.d and ran chkconfig against it. Then I used rpm to install kbd. I was then able to update initscripts and when I did a yum update I ended up at CentOS 3.5.
Regards, Wayne
On 6/10/05, Sukru TIKVES sukru@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr wrote:
error reading information on service keytable: No such file or directory
The first error seems like it's not a dependancy problem, but a missing file one.
If I were you, I would reinstall CentOS with the old /var not mounted (or mounted in something like /oldvar) and copy the necessary files afterwards (I guess you'd like to retain only your web pages and databases).
This way minimum amount of problems will be ensured. However there may be others issues while upgrading database files, since change in MySQL (or PostgreSQL) versions will render those imcompatible.
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