[CentOS] Yum update issues

Wed Mar 16 07:31:59 UTC 2016
John Cenile <jcenile1983 at gmail.com>

Hello all,

When running yum update on a few of our servers, we get the following
errors:

Running Transaction
  Updating   : openssl-1.0.1e-42.el6_7.4.x86_64


   1/327
  Updating   : postgresql-libs-8.4.20-5.el6_7.cloudlinux.x86_64


   2/327
  Updating   : kernel-firmware-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.noarch


   3/327
  Updating   : kmod-lve-1.4-3.1.el6.x86_64


    4/327
  Installing :
kmod-lve-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64-1.4-3.1.el6.x86_64

                                                                 5/327
  Installing : e1000e-3.3.3-2.el6.noarch


    6/327
  Installing :
kmod-e1000e-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64.debug-3.3.3-2.el6.x86_64

                                                                7/327
  Installing :
kmod-lve-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64.debug-1.4-3.1.el6.x86_64

                                                                 8/327
  Installing : kernel-debug-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64


    9/327
  Updating   : liblve-1.4-1.3.el6.cloudlinux.x86_64


  10/327
  Updating   : lve-1.4-1.3.el6.cloudlinux.x86_64


   11/327
  Installing :
kmod-e1000e-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64-3.3.3-2.el6.x86_64

                                                               12/327
  Installing : kernel-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64


   13/327

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 470, in
callback
    self._scriptStop(bytes, total, h);
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 636, in
_scriptStop
    name, txmbr = self._getTxmbr(h)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 331, in
_getTxmbr
    assert len(txmbrs) == 1
AssertionError
error: python callback <bound method RPMTransaction.callback of
<yum.rpmtrans.RPMTransaction instance at 0x3a69050>> failed, aborting!


And if I try and run yum update again, I get the following:

<snip>
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: cagefs conflicts with liblve-1.3-1.10.el6.cloudlinux.x86_64
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
** Found 8 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
kernel-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of
kmod-ixgbe-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64
kernel-debug-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of
kmod-ixgbe-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64.debug
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.noarch is a duplicate with
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-604.30.3.lve1.3.63.el6.noarch
kmod-lve-1.4-3.1.el6.x86_64 is a duplicate with kmod-lve-1.3-11.1.el6.x86_64
liblve-1.4-1.3.el6.cloudlinux.x86_64 is a duplicate with
liblve-1.3-1.10.el6.cloudlinux.x86_64
lve-1.4-1.3.el6.cloudlinux.x86_64 is a duplicate with
lve-1.3-1.10.el6.cloudlinux.x86_64
openssl-1.0.1e-42.el6_7.4.x86_64 is a duplicate with
openssl-1.0.1e-42.el6_7.2.x86_64
postgresql-libs-8.4.20-5.el6_7.cloudlinux.x86_64 is a duplicate with
postgresql-libs-8.4.20-4.el6_7.cloudlinux.x86_64


When I check for duplicate packages:

*# package-cleanup --dupes*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
lve-1.4-1.3.el6.cloudlinux.x86_64
lve-1.3-1.10.el6.cloudlinux.x86_64
postgresql-libs-8.4.20-5.el6_7.cloudlinux.x86_64
postgresql-libs-8.4.20-4.el6_7.cloudlinux.x86_64
kmod-lve-1.4-3.1.el6.x86_64
kmod-lve-1.3-11.1.el6.x86_64
liblve-1.4-1.3.el6.cloudlinux.x86_64
liblve-1.3-1.10.el6.cloudlinux.x86_64
openssl-1.0.1e-42.el6_7.4.x86_64
openssl-1.0.1e-42.el6_7.2.x86_64


I then run package-cleanup --cleandupes and get the following:

<snip>
Running Transaction
** Found 3 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
kernel-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of
kmod-ixgbe-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64
kernel-debug-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64 has missing requires of
kmod-ixgbe-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64.debug
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.noarch is a duplicate with
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-604.30.3.lve1.3.63.el6.noarch
<snip>


So I then run:

yum install kmod-ixgbe-2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.el6.x86_64


Only after cleaning the duplicates, and installing kmod-ixgbe, can I *then* run
yum update -y, and it succeeds.

It's extremely annoying because the above error is preventing cPanel
updates from completing nightly (until I do the above), and I would love to
know why this is suddenly happening on so many servers, for seemingly no
reason.

Thanks in advance.