Hello all,
I may have solved this:
I removed /etc/rpm/platform:
rm /etc/rpm/platform
confirmed that rpm recognized that I had x86_64 arch:
rpm -E '%{_arch}'
x86_64
and then reinstalled python:
yum install python.x86_64
After doing a couple more installs of the x86_64 bit versions of some pam and
nss modules I was able to get back to working order. There are probably some
other things that may need to be fixed, but yum update isn't showing a whole
bunch of i386 packages anymore :)
For the record, I did an upgrade with a CD from i386 SL 5.4 to SL 5.7 x86_64.
Upon rebooting, yum would insist I had 386 arch, and the authentication method
I had was failing (it was looking for 64 bit versions of the pam modules and
nss modules).
Christopher Tooley
ctoo...@uvic.ca
Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
On 2011-09-23, at 4:23 PM, Christopher Tooley wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What is the procedure for upgrading from 32bit to 64bit? I did an upgrade
> with the CD but now I have authentication failing because it's looking for
> the 64bit versions of nss_ldap and can't find them - so I think I may have
> missed a step.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [root@<host> ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> Scientific Linux SL release 5.7 (Boron)
> [root@<host> ~]# grep basearch *
> [root@<host> ~]# rpm --eval '%{_arch}'
> i386
> [root@<host> ~]# uname -ar
> Linux <host> 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jul 21 12:13:11 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [root@<host> ~]#
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Christopher Tooley
> ctoo...@uvic.ca
> Systems, HEP/Astronomy UVic
