-- Le (On) 2010-01-27 -0600 à (at) 10:48:57 P. Larry Nelson écrivit (wrote): --
> Hi Troy, > > Troy Dawson wrote: > >Here is the script that yum-conf (not yum) runs on install to turn > >itself on. > > > >/sbin/chkconfig --add yum > >/sbin/chkconfig yum on > >/sbin/service yum restart >> /dev/null > > > >If you had previously turned yum off > > /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 yum off > >Then it is going to *stay* off. > > > >This has been in every yum-conf since SL 4.0, so I'm not quite sure what > >is happening on your machines Steve. > > > >Troy > > I can't vouch for Steve, but in my case, I've never intentionally > turned yum off. All our remaining 4.8 systems started out life as 4.6. > The nightly yum always ran. Then after I upgraded to 4.8, that's when > I started noticing that the systems weren't running the nightly yum. > At the time, I was too busy to worry or care much about it as we started > transitioning to 5.4. But I just had to rebuild a couple of compute > servers that still need to run 4.8, and being too lazy to download > and burn 4.8 discs, I used my old 4.6 discs and then followed the > upgrade HowTo. Paid attention to what happened this time - thus my > posting to the list. > > - Larry > Hi, I see the same behaviour upgrading from 4.7 to 4.8 a few days ago and looking at yum.log I see at the end of the upgrade : ... Jan 23 00:06:35 Installed: yum-conf-4x.noarch 4:1-8.SL Jan 23 00:06:36 Updated: iptables.i386 1.2.11-3.2.RHEL4 ... Jan 23 00:06:40 Updated: vixie-cron.i386 4:4.1-57.el4 Jan 23 00:06:43 Erased: yum-conf so it seems the last preuninstall scriptlet did : preuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): if [ $1 = 0 ]; then /sbin/chkconfig --del yum /sbin/service yum stop >> /dev/null fi I think the problem probably comes from the order of installing yum-conf-4x and yum-conf. -- Best regards, Robert FRANCHISSEUR ____ Apollo_gist :-)_______________________________________________ | Robert FRANCHISSEUR | | Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique - C.N.R.S. | | Equipe "R.A.M.S.E.S." - UPMC - Tour 45-55 3ème 315C | | Boite 99 - 4, place Jussieu F-75252 PARIS CEDEX 05 FRANCE | | Phone : +33 (0)1 44 27 73 87 fax : +33 (0)1 44 27 62 72 | | e-mail : robert at lmd . jussieu . fr http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr | -------------------------------------------------------------------