[rhn-users] up2date broke up2date RHEL4

[John Fulton]

up2date seems to be broken on one of my Nahant Update 4 servers.  It was
applying 8 updates yesterday and when it got to the kernel-smp-devel
package the connection timed out.  Now when I "up2date -u" I get package
conflict errors and there seems to be data missing from the error
message (pasted below).

RHN claims that I need to apply security updates for php and xorg-x11
(RHSA-2007:0076 & 0003) but up2date complains that I already have them
when I try to "up2date -i" them by name.  An "up2date --undo" produced
an AttributeError and I'll paste portions of /var/log/up2date below
showing the packages that were updated including the error.  I also
tried "up2date -p" and "rpm --rebuilddb" which didn't seem to make any
difference.

Thanks,
  John

# up2date -u

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4...

Fetching rpm headers...
########################################

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
php                                     4.3.9          3.22.3
 i386
xorg-x11                                6.8.2          1.EL.13.37.5
 i386
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs                6.8.2          1.EL.13.37.5
 i386
xorg-x11-devel                          6.8.2          1.EL.13.37.5
 i386
xorg-x11-libs                           6.8.2          1.EL.13.37.5
 i386
xorg-x11-xfs                            6.8.2          1.EL.13.37.5
 i386


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
########################################
RPM package conflict error.  The message was:
Test install failed because of package conflicts:
The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies:
Name                                    Version        Release
--------------------------------------------------------------
php-ldap                                4.3.9          3.22.3
php-pear                                4.3.9          3.22.3
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel          6.8.2          1.EL.13.37.5

package xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 is already
installed
package php-pear-4.3.9-3.22.3 is already installed
package php-ldap-4.3.9-3.22.3 is already installed

#

----

[Wed Feb 21 06:58:31 2007] up2date availablePackageList from network
[Wed Feb 21 06:58:35 2007] up2date solving dep for: ['kernel-ib',
'kernel-ib', '
kernel-ib']
[Wed Feb 21 07:01:32 2007] up2date installing packages:
['bind-libs-9.2.4-24.EL4
', 'bind-utils-9.2.4-24.EL4', 'dbus-0.22-12.EL.8',
'dbus-devel-0.22-12.EL.8', 'd
bus-glib-0.22-12.EL.8', 'dbus-python-0.22-12.EL.8',
'dbus-x11-0.22-12.EL.8', 'fe
tchmail-6.2.5-6.el4.5', 'firefox-1.5.0.9-0.1.el4',
'gnomemeeting-1.0.2-9', 'gnup
g-1.2.6-8', 'gtk2-2.4.13-22', 'kernel-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL',
'kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.0
.8.EL', 'kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL',
'kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL', 'k
ernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL', 'libgsf-1.10.1-2',
'libibverbs-1.0.3-1', 'libm
thca-1.0.2-1', 'libsdp-0.9.0-1', 'php-4.3.9-3.22.3',
'php-ldap-4.3.9-3.22.3', 'p
hp-pear-4.3.9-3.22.3', 'postgresql-libs-7.4.16-1.RHEL4.1',
'samba-3.0.10-1.4E.11
', 'samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E.11', 'samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.11',
'seamonkey-nspr
-1.0.7-0.1.el4', 'seamonkey-nss-1.0.7-0.1.el4', 'tar-1.14-12.RHEL4',
'tzdata-200
6m-3.el4', 'xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.
5', 'xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1
.EL.13.37.5', 'xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-dev
el-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5', 'xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-libs
-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5', 'xorg-x11-tools-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-twm-6.8.2-1
.EL.13.37.5', 'xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.2-1.EL.13.3
7.5', 'xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5', 'kernel-ib-1.0-1']
[Wed Feb 21 09:39:35 2007] up2date Updating package profile
[Wed Feb 21 10:48:46 2007] up2date updating login info
[Wed Feb 21 10:48:46 2007] up2date logging into up2date server
[Wed Feb 21 10:48:47 2007] up2date successfully retrieved authentication
token f
rom up2date server
[Wed Feb 21 10:48:47 2007] up2date availablePackageList from network
[Wed Feb 21 10:48:50 2007] up2date solving dep for: ['php', 'php',
'xorg-x11-dep
recated-libs', 'xorg-x11-devel']
[Wed Feb 21 10:48:54 2007] up2date RPM package conflict error.
...

The rest of the error is from the first pasting above.

-- 
John Fulton, Linux Administrator, Lafayette College ITS
610-330-5650, Pardee Hall Room 11, Easton PA 18042-1775

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