yum issues with RedHat 5 servers

[George Magklaras]

Thanks for the info. Given the fact that this affects a large number of 
users, it might be helpful for many folks to put an official 
announcement of the problem pointing to a specific bugzilla ticket (I 
raised recently 480183, but as there are many other issues with the 
fault, just mark duplicates as needed and give one ticket number). I am 
OK, but I know many unhappy people with the situation.

Cheers.
GM

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Senior Computer Systems Engineer/UNIX-Linux Systems Administrator
EMBnet Technical Management Board
The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo,
University of Oslo
http://folk.uio.no/georgios



Gabi C wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After digging into this a bit more it looks like the ""Error: failed to
> retrieve repodata/primary.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-server-5" error is
> part of an issue on RHN. This will also be addressed by the fix going
> out next week.
> 
> To recap:
> 
> * Several of the problems discussed on this thread are related to an RHN
> problem that should be fixed next week
> * Other issues are part of a yum bug that will be fixed with 5.3, which
> is also going to be released soon
> 
> If anyone needs more detail or has any questions just let me know.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Sam
> 
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Aaron Bliss <abliss at brockport.edu> wrote:
> 
>> As a long time RedHat user and customer, honestly this is one of the lamest
>> issues I've seen with a RedHat ES/AS distribution, in so much is that it
>> seems to be related directly with rhn and that this prevents us essentially
>> from routinely being able to schedule patches to our servers and to install
>> software to the servers on the fly (I wonder how much flack Mirosoft would
>> take if they had this sort of issue with Windows Update).  I don't mean to
>> bash the distribution here (I'm actually moving our organization to RedHat
>> from a predominately Solaris environment), however having done some
>> googling
>> around, this is an issue that has existed since RedHat 5 was in beta....
>>
>> I was able to update one of the servers I'm having trouble with, only to
>> turn around literally 2 minutes later to run yum check-update on the exact
>> same box, and to run into the exact error again...
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
>> redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
>> On Behalf Of George Magklaras
>> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:38 AM
>> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>> Subject: Re: yum issues with RedHat 5 servers
>>
>> I confirm that we face the same problem with various servers and we
>> attribute this to RHN capacity issues. We had some luck if we delete the
>> /var/spool/up2date/loginAuth.pkl in some of our boxes. For others we
>> have not managed.
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is a redhat bugzilla report for this? This
>> might raise the status of the issue. If I do not find one, I shall raise
>> one.
>>
>> GM
>>
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>> George Magklaras BSc Hons MPhil
>> RHCE:805008309135525
>>
>> Senior Computer Systems Engineer/UNIX-Linux Systems Administrator
>> EMBnet Technical Management Board
>> The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo,
>> University of Oslo
>> http://folk.uio.no/georgios
>>
>>
>> Aaron Bliss wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> On a consistent basis, several RedHat 5 servers produce the following
>> error
>>> when attempting to update the boxes:
>>> error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
>>>
>>> Googling this error, I've tried:
>>> yum clean all
>>> yum clean metadata
>>> rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*
>>>
>>> None of those seem to have any lasting effect.  We have several Centos
>>> servers, none of which have this issue.  This problem is only effecting
>>> RedHat servers.  Is there any real solution to this problem?  Is there
>>> anyone actually affiliated with RedHat that can say this issue is being
>>> addressed?  I've found a post dated back to 2006 speaking of this issue:
>>>
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-beta-list/2006-September/msg00170.htm
>>> l
>>>
>>> Obviously not being able to consistently patch servers is a serious
>> issue.
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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