[rhelv6-list] why do errata and package updates fail?

[Robin Price II]

Mirko,

This may be useful:

RHEL6: yum returns error: "Protected multilib versions" transaction error
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/solutions/57783

HTHs,

~rp

On 10/09/2012 01:33 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:18 PM, thomas at redhat.com<thomas at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> On 10/09/2012 11:10 AM, Mirko Vukovic wrote:
>>>
>>> yum update installed 26 packages.  The system shows as up-to-date on RHN.
>>
>>
>> Without seeing the logs from the previous commands, it's almost impossible
>> to tell what happened.
>>
> ...
>> What repositories do you have enabled? What is the output of the following
>> command?
>>
>> yum -v repolist
>
> Here is output of `yum -v repolist'
>
> Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
> Loading "product-id" plugin
> Loading "refresh-packagekit" plugin
> Loading "security" plugin
> Loading "subscription-manager" plugin
> Updating certificate-based repositories.
> Unable to read consumer identity
> Config time: 0.109
> Looking for repo options for [main]
> Looking for repo options for [rhel-x86_64-workstation-6]
> Repo 'rhel-x86_64-workstation-6' setting option 'enabled' = '1'
> Repo 'rhel-x86_64-workstation-6' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '1'
> Looking for repo options for [rhel-x86_64-workstation-supplementary-6]
> Repo 'rhel-x86_64-workstation-supplementary-6' setting option 'enabled' = '1'
> Repo 'rhel-x86_64-workstation-supplementary-6' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '1'
> Looking for repo options for [rhel-x86_64-workstation-optional-6]
> Repo 'rhel-x86_64-workstation-optional-6' setting option 'enabled' = '1'
> Repo 'rhel-x86_64-workstation-optional-6' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '1'
> Yum Version: 3.2.29
> Setting up Package Sacks
> pkgsack time: 0.055
> Repo-id      : elrepo
> Repo-name    : ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el6
> Repo-updated : Mon Oct  8 01:31:18 2012
> Repo-pkgs    : 219
> Repo-size    : 931 M
> Repo-baseurl : http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/x86_64/
> Repo-mirrors : http://elrepo.org/mirrors-elrepo.el6
> Repo-expire  : 21,600 second(s) (last: Tue Oct  9 11:55:29 2012)
>
> Repo-id      : epel
> Repo-name    : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64
> Repo-revision: 1349708267
> Repo-tags    : binary-x86_64
> Repo-updated : Mon Oct  8 10:59:47 2012
> Repo-pkgs    : 7,887
> Repo-size    : 6.9 G
> Repo-metalink: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=x86_64
>    Updated    : Mon Oct  8 10:59:47 2012
> Repo-baseurl : http://fedora-epel.mirror.lstn.net/6/x86_64/ (38 more)
> Repo-expire  : 21,600 second(s) (last: Tue Oct  9 11:55:31 2012)
>
> Repo-id      : rhel-x86_64-workstation-6
> Repo-name    : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6 for x86_64)
> Repo-updated : Mon Oct  8 08:56:32 2012
> Repo-pkgs    : 9,349
> Repo-size    : 15 G
> Repo-baseurl : https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-workstation-6
> Repo-expire  : 21,600 second(s) (last: Tue Oct  9 11:55:32 2012)
>
> Repo-id      : rhel-x86_64-workstation-optional-6
> Repo-name    : RHEL Workstation Optional (v. 6 for x86_64)
> Repo-updated : Mon Oct  8 08:56:32 2012
> Repo-pkgs    : 4,565
> Repo-size    : 3.3 G
> Repo-baseurl : https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-workstation-optional-6
> Repo-expire  : 21,600 second(s) (last: Tue Oct  9 11:55:33 2012)
>
> Repo-id      : rhel-x86_64-workstation-supplementary-6
> Repo-name    : RHEL Workstation Supplementary (v. 6 for x86_64)
> Repo-updated : Tue Oct  9 03:53:35 2012
> Repo-pkgs    : 276
> Repo-size    : 3.6 G
> Repo-baseurl : https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-workstation-supplementary-6
> Repo-expire  : 21,600 second(s) (last: Tue Oct  9 11:55:34 2012)
>
>
>
>>
>> I almost guarantee that the answers are in the system event log. Go to RHN,
>> click on the system, choose "Events" in the menu just below the hostname,
>> then choose "History" to see what happened.
>>
>
> Thanks for showing me how to get to history.  This is what I found:
> - Some were failures because of existing lock on var/run/yum.pid
> - Other were package dependency failures: u'Protected multilib
> versions: ...x86_64 != ...i686 (code 18)
>
> I checked (ps -A) and there is currently no yum running.
>
>
> Mirko
>
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