[CentOS-devel] Reminder: CentOS 6 EOL on 30 November 2020

Phelps, Matthew

mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu
Wed Dec 2 22:47:55 UTC 2020


On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 5:26 PM Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>
wrote:

> On 12/2/20 11:36 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 4:17 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 16:09, Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 3:43 PM Patrick Riehecky <riehecky at fnal.gov>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Some folks may continue running EL6 based systems, but we need to make
>>>> sure it is obvious that we're not providing any security updates.
>>>> Moving the repos off the mirror network will provide a hint to folks
>>>> doing a simple 'yum update' that something is not the way it once was.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Pat
>>>>
>>>
>>> Whoa!
>>>
>>> What will happen if I run a "yum update" on a CO6 machine? We have it
>>> run automatically at reboot and I need to know what will happen so I can
>>> see if the rest of the scripts we run at startup will be OK.
>>>
>>> Yes we are updating them, but it's hard to do when you can't go onsite
>>> due to COVID.
>>>
>>>
>> You will get every system running through messages like this
>>
>>
>> [root at linode01 ~]# yum update
>> Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror
>> Setting up Update Process
>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>> epel/metalink
>>                                    | 2.5 kB     00:00
>> epel-testing/metalink
>>                                    | 2.6 kB     00:00
>>  * base: mirror.dal10.us.leaseweb.net
>>  * epel: d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net
>>  * epel-testing: d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net
>>  * extras: mirror.netdepot.com
>>  * updates: mirrors.usinternet.com
>>
>> http://mirror.dal10.us.leaseweb.net/centos/6.10/os/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not
>> Found"
>> Trying other mirror.
>> To address this issue please refer to the below wiki article
>>
>> https://wiki.centos.org/yum-errors
>>
>> If above article doesn't help to resolve this issue please use
>> https://bugs.centos.org/.
>> http://bay.uchicago.edu/centos/6.10/extras/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not
>> Found"
>> Trying other mirror.
>>
>> until it finds some mirror which will work (that one mirror seems to be
>> updating for everyone in the world so is very slow).
>>
>> or it will do the following:
>>
>> [root at linode01 ~]# yum clean all
>> Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror
>> Cleaning repos: base cr epel epel-testing extras updates
>> Cleaning up Everything
>> Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
>> [root at linode01 ~]# yum update
>> Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror
>> Setting up Update Process
>> Determining fastest mirrors
>> YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
>>  Eg. Invalid release/repo/arch combination/
>> removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors:
>> /var/cache/yum/i386/6/base/mirrorlist.txt
>> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
>> [root at linode01 ~]# echo $?
>> 1
>> [root at linode01 ~]# yum list all
>> Loaded plugins: etckeeper, fastestmirror
>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>> YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
>>  Eg. Invalid release/repo/arch combination/
>> removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors:
>> /var/cache/yum/i386/6/base/mirrorlist.txt
>> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
>>
>> so basically the system can not find anything/do anything until a working
>> mirror is there.
>>
>>
>
> I'm not really very happy with this throwing an error.
>
> I get it. People need to upgrade. But breaking things that are part of
> automated processes is a crappy way to get the message across.
>
> As I mentioned, upgrades will take some time still, and now I have more
> work to deal with our unupgraded systems, so now it will take even longer
> to upgrade.
>
> Thanks a bunch.
>
> (Sorry for the sarcasm, but this is not a nice way to deal with the
> situation).
>
>
> Welcome to the club. Now wait for the free membership to the " You had
> _years_ advanced notice." to come, it's on its way.
>
>
>
I hear ya brother.



> wolfy "I still have a few hundred remote desktops to upgrade ( and could
> not do that due to remote access restrictions collateral to Covid moving
> around restrictions )"
>

We are not alone. That's no solace though.

Good luck.


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