[Yum] i screwed up

[Richard Ray]

On Thu, 13 May 2010, Seth Vidal wrote:

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> On Thu, 13 May 2010, Richard Ray wrote:
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>> > 
>> >  Are you perhaps running out of disk space somewhere?
>>
>>  no
>>  got gigs free
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> All partitions? including /tmp and /var/tmp if they are separate partitions.

$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg00-lvol00
                        20G  5.9G   13G  32% /
/dev/sda1              99M   23M   72M  24% /boot
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm


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>>
>>  correct
>>  if i disable addons repo all is well
>>  md5sum shows the primary.xml.gz file is the same as the one on working
>>  machines
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> okay - then a simple test.
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> wget the primary.xml.gz from the addons repos on that machine.
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> do it at the prmpt then run
> xmllint --noout primary.xml.gz

on failing machine

$ md5sum primary.xml.gz
1b53def5a5feaa75fd3b6732ed0de0d6  primary.xml.gz
$ xmllint --noout primary.xml.gz
primary.xml.gz:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

^
$ ls -l primary.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 201 Oct 19  2009 primary.xml.gz



on working machine

$ md5sum primary.xml.gz
1b53def5a5feaa75fd3b6732ed0de0d6  primary.xml.gz
$ xmllint --noout primary.xml.gz
$ ls -l primary.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 201 Oct 19  2009 primary.xml.gz


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> maybe you have a weird proxycache in front of that system?
>
>>  yes, yum does not work :)
>>  it has been running as configured for several years
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> See - I like it when people say things like the above "running as configured 
> for years" - that's nice to hear.
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>
>>  i ran 'yum update' to update from 5.3 to 5.4
>>  update had no problems
>>  i performed the same update on several other machines and had no problem
>>  all machines are configured pretty much the same
>>  all machines are 32 bit
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> can you run a:
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> rpm -Va
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> look for anything _odd_

nothing significant

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