Worried, ran yum -y update expecting to get the bind update but am concerned as to why the following instant messaging packages were installed as dependencies. All of the following are instant messaging related except cyrus-sasl.
Jul 30 17:00:49 Installed: cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.22-4.i386 Jul 30 17:00:49 Installed: meanwhile-1.0.2-5.el5.i386 Jul 30 17:00:50 Installed: libsilc-1.0.2-2.fc6.i386 Jul 30 17:00:54 Installed: libpurple-2.5.5-3.el5.i386 Jul 30 17:00:58 Installed: libpurple-perl-2.5.5-3.el5.i386
Did anybody else notice the install of im clients on practically headless non-gui systems? Any explanation?
Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 00:21 +0200 schrieb Rob Townley:
Worried, ran yum -y update expecting to get the bind update but am concerned as to why the following instant messaging packages were installed as dependencies. All of the following are instant messaging related except cyrus-sasl.
Jul 30 17:00:49 Installed: cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.22-4.i386 Jul 30 17:00:49 Installed: meanwhile-1.0.2-5.el5.i386 Jul 30 17:00:50 Installed: libsilc-1.0.2-2.fc6.i386 Jul 30 17:00:54 Installed: libpurple-2.5.5-3.el5.i386 Jul 30 17:00:58 Installed: libpurple-perl-2.5.5-3.el5.i386
Did anybody else notice the install of im clients on practically headless non-gui systems? Any explanation?
We observed something similar. On some systems automatic update installed kernel-xen-devel on some of our systems. Seems like the yum repository metadata was broken at some point in time.
Chris
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Christoph Masercmr@financial.com wrote:
Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 00:21 +0200 schrieb Rob Townley:
Did anybody else notice the install of im clients on practically headless non-gui systems? Any explanation?
We observed something similar. On some systems automatic update installed kernel-xen-devel on some of our systems. Seems like the yum repository metadata was broken at some point in time.
Last night I had a similar issue. yum kept on trying to pull in an older kernel-devel package even after deleting the corresponding kernel. If I disabled kernel packages, it returned an error about python. Running a "yum clean all" cleared it up.
On 07/30/2009 11:27 PM, Christoph Maser wrote:
Did anybody else notice the install of im clients on practically headless non-gui systems? Any explanation?
We observed something similar. On some systems automatic update installed kernel-xen-devel on some of our systems. Seems like the yum repository metadata was broken at some point in time.
that comes from a problem in the metadata-parser and the yum sqlite interface, only partially resolved in the fastrack update. The problem persists still. 5.4 should bring a more robust fix, for now make sure the metadata is rebuild on each automated run with a yum clean metadata; as the first step.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Christoph Masercmr@financial.com wrote:
Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 00:21 +0200 schrieb Rob Townley:
Worried, ran yum -y update expecting to get the bind update but am concerned as to why the following instant messaging packages were installed as dependencies. All of the following are instant messaging related except cyrus-sasl.
Jul 30 17:00:49 Installed: cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.22-4.i386 Jul 30 17:00:49 Installed: meanwhile-1.0.2-5.el5.i386 Jul 30 17:00:50 Installed: libsilc-1.0.2-2.fc6.i386 Jul 30 17:00:54 Installed: libpurple-2.5.5-3.el5.i386 Jul 30 17:00:58 Installed: libpurple-perl-2.5.5-3.el5.i386
Did anybody else notice the install of im clients on practically headless non-gui systems? Any explanation?
We observed something similar. On some systems automatic update installed kernel-xen-devel on some of our systems. Seems like the yum repository metadata was broken at some point in time.
Chris
financial.com AG
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Gosh, i miss Munich at this time of year. Wish i was eating a roasted chicken in the Chinese Pavillion right now!
Thanks. Maybe i am being paranoid but Rootkits sending back their loot via im isn't uncommon and this internet facing system is due for a harddrive wipe anyway. But after yum clean all and uninstalling all the new im clients, then rerunning yum update resulted in no updates found. So that is good news.
Thank You Karanbir, Kwan, and Christoper.
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