[rhn-users] up2date broke up2date RHEL4

[John Fulton]

Alfred,

Thanks for your advice.  I was able to fix the system.

First I tried:

rpm --rebuilddb
rm -rf /var/spool/up2date/*
up2date-nox -pvvv --hardware
up2date-nox -lvvv
up2date-nox -uvvv

But had the same issue.  RedHat support suggested that I remove the
packages that up2date was complaining about with:

rpm -e --justdb --nodeps --noscripts --notriggers php-pear-4.3.9-3.22.3
rpm -e --justdb --nodeps --noscripts --notriggers php-ldap-4.3.9-3.22.3
rpm -e --justdb --nodeps --noscripts --notriggers
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5

I was able to then have a normal 'up2date -u' and it seems to be
fixed.

  John

Alfred Hovdestad wrote:
> On some older systems (RH8 and RH9), I occasionally had to delete the
> temporary files in /var/lib/rpm/ and rebuild the rpmdb database:
>
>
>  rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
>  rpm --rebuilddb
>  rpm -vv --rebuilddb  /* if you want lots of output */
>
> It's been a while since I have had to do this, but it might help (and it
> shouldn't hurt).
>
>   Alfred Hovdestad
>
>
>
>
>
> John Fulton wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
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John Fulton, Linux Administrator, Lafayette College ITS
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