Hi there
We're having an awful time with Yum and new RHEL 5.2 builds.
Repeated invocations of "yum install httpd" has one of several
outcomes, seemingly at random:
* Error: failed to retrieve repodata/filelists.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-
server-5
error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
* a prompt to install the RHEL 5.2 httpd package and its dependencies
(libapr, etc) -- ie, success
* yum deciding to install our own custom httpd package (called nol-
httpd) from our own repo. This package also depends on (RedHat) libapr
but these dependencies aren't satisfied:
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "basearchonly" plugin
rhel-x86_64-server-5 100% |=========================| 1.4 kB
00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 137 B
00:00
8 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package nol-httpd.x86_64 0:2.2.9-2.nol set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libaprutil-1.so.0()(64bit) for package: nol-
httpd
--> Processing Dependency: libapr-1.so.0()(64bit) for package: nol-httpd
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libaprutil-1.so.0()(64bit) is needed by
package nol-httpd
Error: Missing Dependency: libapr-1.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package
nol-httpd
this suggests yum isn't looking at or can't get to the RHEL repo -- we
don't have in-house versions of libapr.
Our yum setup is as follows:
* stock RHN configuration
* yum-priorities plugin
* yum-basearchonly plugin
* additional repos:
[nol-ls-production]
name=NOL Livesite software for RHEL 5 ($basearch)
baseurl=http://repohost/repo/rhel/5/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
priority=1
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
failovermethod=priority
priority=99
Additionally, we have to use a Squid cache to get access to the
outside world. /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date is configured to use this,
as is /etc/yum.conf (which is otherwise stock). Squid is configured
not to cache anything ("cache deny all"). The Squid access logs show
TCP_MISS for any yum-related requests and a lot of CONNECT requests
for xmlrpc.redhat.com. We don't have a RHN satellite.
"yum clean all", "rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*" seem to make no difference;
consecutive runs of "yum install <anything>" results in one of the 3
above outcomes.
Could there be something up with RHN? There doesn't seem to be
anything on the rhn-outage list. Any other ideas? We're tearing our
hair out and have another 80 or so servers to build over the next week
or two.
Suggestions very gratefully received!
Thanks,
--
Mark Drayton
Live Site Systems Administrator
BBC FM&T J :: BC3 A4, (02) 80914
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