Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-16 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of sebasti...@datafaber.net > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 11:27 > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-16 Thread Alain Péan
Le 16/09/2011 17:26, sebasti...@datafaber.net a écrit : > Many thanks to all the people on the list who have suggestions and > advice, particularly to Alain Péan who pointed me in the right > direction. You are welcome, but I don't know how my suggestions lead you to the idea to setup a local rep

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-16 Thread sebastiano
I've finally managed to update one of my boxes to 5.7. I did it in a very roundabout way, which however confirms that at least in my boxes there's something wrong in the way yum creates the sqlite databases. I've basically followed the guide at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreateLocalMirror to

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-16 Thread William Hooper
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:18 AM, wrote: [snip] > So either several mirrors all have the same corrupted file, or my box > is generating a corrupted file each time. I would tend towards the > second hypothesis, since other people have successfully updated their > 5.6 installations to 5.7. Have you

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-16 Thread m . roth
sebasti...@datafaber.net wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:15:23 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Has anyone in this thread - I may have missed some posts last night - >> suggested yum reinstall yum? > > This wasn't suggested yet, so I've tried it and it fails in the same > way (not unexpectedly, I

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-16 Thread m . roth
sebasti...@datafaber.net wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:15:23 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Has anyone in this thread - I may have missed some posts last night - >> suggested yum reinstall yum? > > This wasn't suggested yet, so I've tried it and it fails in the same > way (not unexpectedly, I

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-16 Thread sebastiano
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:15:23 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Has anyone in this thread - I may have missed some posts last night - > suggested yum reinstall yum? This wasn't suggested yet, so I've tried it and it fails in the same way (not unexpectedly, I would say): [root@picard ~]# yum reinst

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-16 Thread m . roth
Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > On 16/09/11 08:22, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: >> Based on what I'm seeing, I do not think that yum is downloading a >> corrupt sqlite database, rather than it is creating a corrupt database >> all by itself. I have however no definite confirmation of this and I >> would like to

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 16/09/11 08:22, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > Based on what I'm seeing, I do not think that yum is downloading a > corrupt sqlite database, rather than it is creating a corrupt database > all by itself. I have however no definite confirmation of this and I > would like to have one before filing a

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Craig White
On Sep 15, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > Josh Miller wrote: >> On 09/15/2011 02:45 PM, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: >>> Craig White wrote: mv /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz/sqlite /tmp and try again I suppose - yes, that file is supposed to be much larger - I su

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Sebastiano Pilla
Josh Miller wrote: > On 09/15/2011 02:45 PM, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: >> Craig White wrote: >>> mv /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz/sqlite /tmp >>> >>> and try again I suppose - yes, that file is supposed to be much larger - I >>> suspect that it will create a new 'copy' of that file if it fails

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Sebastiano Pilla
Brian Miller wrote: > Sorry if this has been suggested already - have you tried running with > all plugins disabled? > > 'yum --noplugins check-update' This wasn't suggested yet, but I did try it at some point. I've just tried again and the result is the same: [root@picard ~]# yum clean all Load

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Josh Miller
On 09/15/2011 02:45 PM, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > Craig White wrote: >> mv /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz/sqlite /tmp >> >> and try again I suppose - yes, that file is supposed to be much larger - I >> suspect that it will create a new 'copy' of that file if it fails to find it. > > Unfortunat

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Sebastiano Pilla
Craig White wrote: > On Sep 15, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > >> Craig White wrote: >>> mv /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz/sqlite /tmp >>> >>> and try again I suppose - yes, that file is supposed to be much larger - I >>> suspect that it will create a new 'copy' of that file if it

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:06 -0700, Craig White wrote: > post the output of... It was the same as mine in Centos 5.6, now 5.7 Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Craig White
On Sep 15, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > Craig White wrote: >> mv /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz/sqlite /tmp >> >> and try again I suppose - yes, that file is supposed to be much larger - I >> suspect that it will create a new 'copy' of that file if it fails to find it. > > U

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Sebastiano Pilla
Craig White wrote: > mv /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz/sqlite /tmp > > and try again I suppose - yes, that file is supposed to be much larger - I > suspect that it will create a new 'copy' of that file if it fails to find it. Unfortunately yum recreates the same corrupted file, even if I move

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Brian Miller
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 18:37 +0200, sebasti...@datafaber.net wrote: > And there's also plenty of available space on the other 5 boxes which > exhibit the same issue. Sorry if this has been suggested already - have you tried running with all plugins disabled? 'yum --noplugins check-update' I hav

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Sebastiano Pilla
Alain Péan wrote: > What if you delete (or save elsewhere) the primary.xml.gz.sqlite file ? > If it is corrupted, it would do no arm, and perhaps it is no more used > or regenerated if it missing ? This doesn't work unfortunately, yum always creates the same corrupted file: - here I use yum to de

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Alain Péan
Le 15/09/2011 18:44, sebasti...@datafaber.net a écrit : > You may be onto something, I've seen that the 5.6 base repo has the > sqlite metadata store while the 5.7 base repo hasn't it. But the 20K > sqlite file that yum generates on my boxes looks to have at least > something related to sqlite insi

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Alain Péan
Le 15/09/2011 18:37, sebasti...@datafaber.net a écrit : > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:33:39 +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> sebasti...@datafaber.net wrote: >>> The file /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz.sqlite is only 20KB, >>> whereas in the "normal" case I'd expect it to be 6.5MB. Somehow, yum

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Craig White
On Sep 15, 2011, at 9:16 AM, sebasti...@datafaber.net wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:42:42 -0700, Craig White wrote: >> might be hard to run package-cleanup without having base enabled but >> I would certainly recommend that you run 'rpm -Va [--nofiles >> --nodigest]' to identify the broken depe

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread sebastiano
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:36:10 +0200, Alain Péan wrote: > And here is the answer from Karanbir Singh : > > "unfortunately, you hit an issue that I did not think anyone would > see ( > but was aware of... ). The issue originates from the fact that the > new > CR repo has no sqlite metadata store, it

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread sebastiano
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:33:39 +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > sebasti...@datafaber.net wrote: >> The file /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz.sqlite is only 20KB, >> whereas in the "normal" case I'd expect it to be 6.5MB. Somehow, yum >> is > > you're not out of hard drive space on that partiti

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Alain Péan
Le 15/09/2011 18:16, sebasti...@datafaber.net a écrit : > [root@picard ~]# ll /var/cache/yum/base > total 1004K > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Sep 15 19:12 cachecookie > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1017 Sep 15 19:11 mirrorlist.txt > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jul 10 12:19 packages/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 root r

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
sebasti...@datafaber.net wrote: > The file /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz.sqlite is only 20KB, > whereas in the "normal" case I'd expect it to be 6.5MB. Somehow, yum is you're not out of hard drive space on that partition, are you? ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread sebastiano
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:42:42 -0700, Craig White wrote: > might be hard to run package-cleanup without having base enabled but > I would certainly recommend that you run 'rpm -Va [--nofiles > --nodigest]' to identify the broken dependencies - apparently > something that the base repository really be

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Craig White
On Sep 15, 2011, at 7:18 AM, sebasti...@datafaber.net wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:57:02 -0700, Craig White wrote: >> sounds like someone did some manual mucking in /etc/yum.repos.d >> >> You probably want to start disabling some of the configured repo's >> in /etc/yum.repos.d... 'enabled = 0

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Stupid question. Can we uninstall yum? And install again using manual rpm. 나의 iPhone에서 보냄 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread sebastiano
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:57:02 -0700, Craig White wrote: > sounds like someone did some manual mucking in /etc/yum.repos.d > > You probably want to start disabling some of the configured repo's > in /etc/yum.repos.d... 'enabled = 0' - I'd probably start by making > sure > that all non-CentOS repo's

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread sebastiano
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:30:01 +0100, Always Learning wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:18 +0200, sebasti...@datafaber.net wrote: > > >> Update: yum chose to use another mirror and it failed in the exact >> same way. I could do that, but it is again extremely unlikely that 6 disks on 6 different bo

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:18 +0200, sebasti...@datafaber.net wrote: > Update: yum chose to use another mirror and it failed in the exact > same way. Time for a file check on your disk. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread sebastiano
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:10:50 +0200, sebasti...@datafaber.net wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:44:59 +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Kahlil Hodgson >> wrote: >>> Perhaps your are downloading the same corrupted primary.xml.gz >>> from mirror.opendoc.net.  Maybe try an

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 08:22 +0200, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > make sure that there isn't any yum/rpm processes running... > > ps aux|grep yum > > ps aux|grep rpm > > > > Once you've determined they aren't running, try... > > > > yum clean metadata > > yum clean dbcache > > > >

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread sebastiano
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:01:23 +0100, Always Learning wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 00:35 +0200, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > >> [root@picard ~]# ll /etc/yum.repos.d/ >> total 20K >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K Feb 8 2011 CentOS-Base.repo >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 631 Feb 8 2011 CentOS-Debuginfo.r

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-15 Thread sebastiano
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:44:59 +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Kahlil Hodgson > wrote: >> Perhaps your are downloading the same corrupted primary.xml.gz >> from mirror.opendoc.net.  Maybe try another mirror?  Perhaps >> download >> the file manually and compare? Thi

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > Perhaps your are downloading the same corrupted primary.xml.gz > from mirror.opendoc.net.  Maybe try another mirror?  Perhaps download > the file manually and compare? Yeah could be. And if your corporate network is behind a proxy, the prox

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 15/09/11 16:22, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > [root@picard yum.repos.d]# yum clean dbcache > Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities > 0 sqlite files removed > [root@picard yum.repos.d]# yum update > > Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities > Loading mirror speeds

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Sebastiano Pilla
Craig White wrote: > make sure that there isn't any yum/rpm processes running... > ps aux|grep yum > ps aux|grep rpm > > Once you've determined they aren't running, try... > > yum clean metadata > yum clean dbcache > > (those should be executed when you execute 'yum clean all' but maybe it ain't >

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Sebastiano Pilla
Keith Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.6K Feb 8 2011 CentOS-Vault.repo > > Do you need CentOS-Vault, as it includes all the packages > from Centos 5.x upwards IIRC? It's in there by default, since the first install on the box. All the r

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Sebastiano Pilla
Always Learning wrote: > Please try one thing for me > > yum install httpd > > It does not matter whether or not you have this already installed. I am > curious to know what type of response you get. You do not have to > install this. It is the reaction from yum that interests me, so you can

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 00:35 +0200, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > [root@picard ~]# ll /etc/yum.repos.d/ > total 20K > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K Feb 8 2011 CentOS-Base.repo > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 631 Feb 8 2011 CentOS-Debuginfo.repo > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 626 Feb 8 2011 CentOS-Media.repo

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.6K Feb 8 2011 CentOS-Vault.repo Do you need CentOS-Vault, as it includes all the packages from Centos 5.x upwards IIRC? Keith - Websites: http://www.karsite

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 00:35 +0200, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > Thank you very much for your help. Please do not forget I am a Learner, not an expert :-) Please try one thing for me yum install httpd It does not matter whether or not you have this already installed. I am curious to know

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Sebastiano Pilla
Always Learning wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 00:26 +0200, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > > Can you list, one line for each, the names of the repos > in /etc/yum.repos.d [root@picard ~]# ll /etc/yum.repos.d/ total 20K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K Feb 8 2011 CentOS-Base.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 00:26 +0200, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > Always Learning wrote: >> > > Have you tried > > > > yum clean all > > > > > > followed by > > > > yum update > > > > ? > > Yes, I've tried it, with the exact same result: > > [root@picard ~]# yum clean all > Loaded plugins: d

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Sebastiano Pilla
Always Learning wrote: > On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 23:56 +0200, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: >> I'm trying to update my CentOS 5.6 boxes to 5.7, and on every single one >> of them yum is failing with a segmentation fault: the error happens when >> yum is checking the 'base' repository. > > Have you tried >

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Craig White
On Sep 14, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > I'm trying to update my CentOS 5.6 boxes to 5.7, and on every single one > of them yum is failing with a segmentation fault: the error happens when > yum is checking the 'base' repository. > > [root@picard yum]# yum update > Loaded plugins

Re: [CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

2011-09-14 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 23:56 +0200, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: > I'm trying to update my CentOS 5.6 boxes to 5.7, and on every single one > of them yum is failing with a segmentation fault: the error happens when > yum is checking the 'base' repository. Have you tried yum clean all follo