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 > <mailto:smooge at gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 16:09, Phelps, Matthew > <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu <mailto:mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 3:43 PM Patrick Riehecky > <riehecky at fnal.gov <mailto: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 > <http://mirror.dal10.us.leaseweb.net> > * epel: d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net > <http://d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net> > * epel-testing: d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net > <http://d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net> > * extras: mirror.netdepot.com <http://mirror.netdepot.com> > * updates: mirrors.usinternet.com <http://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. 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 )" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20201203/ce6141af/attachment-0006.html>