Hi all,

I have two new Centos 5.2 servers ("drizzle" and "fog"), both ROCKS headnodes installed from the same rolls. Identical `uname -a' output (2.6.18-92.1.13.el5, x86_64 etc), identical yum versions (Version: 3.2.8 Release: 9.el5.centos.1) with identical yum.conf files and identical repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d.

To simplify things I've disabled all repos except the centos base on both servers:

[base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&rep... baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

Octave is installed on drizzle:

drizzle@/etc/yum.repos.d# yum info octave Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * centosplus: mirrors.portafixe.com * base: mirrors.portafixe.com * updates: mirrors.portafixe.com * extras: mirrors.portafixe.com * addons: mirrors.portafixe.com centosplus 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Installed Packages Name : octave Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 6 Version: 3.0.1 Release: 2.el5 Size : 33 M Repo : installed Summary: A high-level language for numerical computations Description: [etc...]

And I'd like to install it on fog; however:

[root@fog yum.repos.d]# yum info octave Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirrors.portafixe.com * updates: mirrors.portafixe.com * centosplus: mirrors.portafixe.com * addons: mirrors.portafixe.com * extras: mirrors.portafixe.com Error: No matching Packages to list [root@fog yum.repos.d]#

"yum install octave" gives the same error.

Any idea what I'm missing? I'm sure it's something stupid but I've been banging my head against the wall all evening on this...

Thanks, -Rob Rob Hutten Senior HPC Engineer Flagstone RE Suite 700, Cogswell Tower 2000 Barrington Street Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3K1 www.flagstonere.bm

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