[rhn-users] Update software through up2date - Problems

[Alfred Hovdestad]

I think I found a workaround for this problem.  I was updating an 
Opteron box and I received an error like:

"unresolvable chain of dependencies:
rpm-libs 4.2.3-21 requires libelf.so.1

(or something like that - it has rolled off of the screen already).

I had a problem similar to this once before so this time I kept track of 
the commands that I entered.

First I removed the /var/lib/rpm/__db* files (I don't know that this 
step helped because I got the same unresolvable dependency error when I 
tried to run update):

# rm /var/lib/rpm/__db

Next I downloaded the rpm packages and moved them to a local directory:

# up2date -d rpm-libs
# mv /var/spool/up2date/*.rpm /root/Downloads

Then I installed the rpm packages and updated my RHN profile:

# rpm -Uvh rpm*.rpm
# up2date -p


The I updated the rest of the packages:

# up2date -u --nox


    Alfred Hovdestad
    University of Saskatchewan




Johan Holst Nielsen - Print2People ApS wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem upgrading from
> 
> rpm version 4.2.2-0.14 to version 4.2.3-21_nonptl
> 
> It tells me that it requires libelf.so.1 (ELFUTILS_1.0).
> 
> The only elfutils package I can find are elfutils-0.94-1 - and it is 
> already installed :(
> 
> Don't know what I can get over this problem? Any solutions?
> 
> Arch: x86_64
> Channel Subscribed: rhel-x86_64-es-3
> 
> Regards,
> Johan
> 
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