Bug 659859

Summary:	libsmbios is needed by (installed) smbios-utils-bin-2.2.19-4.1.el5.i386
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	tfowens
Component:	yum	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Priority:	low
Version:	5.5
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Description tfowens 2010-12-03 21:32:46 UTC

Description of problem:
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
libsmbios is needed by (installed) smbios-utils-bin-2.2.19-4.1.el5.i386

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


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Expected results:


Additional info:
[root@<server>~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * epel: mirror.pnl.gov
 * ius: pancks.sothatswhy.org.uk
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping security plugin, no data
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libsmbios.i386 0:2.2.26-3.el5 set to be updated
---> Package smbios-utils-bin.x86_64 0:2.2.26-3.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libsmbios.so.2()(64bit) for package: smbios-utils-bin
--> Processing Dependency: libsmbios_c.so.2()(64bit) for package: smbios-utils-bin
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libsmbios.x86_64 0:2.2.26-3.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Comment 1 James Antill 2010-12-06 15:45:28 UTC

 What does the following say:

rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Comment 2 tfowens 2010-12-06 17:15:14 UTC

No return value reported:

[root@<server> ~]# rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
[root@<server> ~]#

Comment 3 James Antill 2010-12-06 19:59:38 UTC

Ok, what about:

yum list smbios-utils-bin libsmbios
rpm -q --whatprovides libsmbios

Comment 4 tfowens 2010-12-06 20:06:41 UTC

[root@<server> ~]# yum list smbios-utils-bin libsmbios
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * epel: mirror.pnl.gov
 * ius: pancks.sothatswhy.org.uk
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Installed Packages
libsmbios.i386 2.2.19-4.1.el5
installed

smbios-utils-bin.i386
2.2.19-4.1.el5                                                                  installed

Available Packages
libsmbios.i386                                                                  2.2.26-3.el5                                                                    epel

libsmbios.x86_64                                                                2.2.26-3.el5                                                                    epel

smbios-utils-bin.x86_64                                                                      2.2.26-3.el5                                                                    epel


[root@<server> ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides libsmbios
libsmbios-2.2.19-4.1.el5

Comment 5 James Antill 2010-12-06 21:14:11 UTC

Ok, so you have:

Installed:
libsmbios         i386    2.2.19-4.1.el5  installed
smbios-utils-bin  i386    2.2.19-4.1.el5  installed

Available:
libsmbios         i386    2.2.26-3.el5    epel
libsmbios         x86_64  2.2.26-3.el5    epel
smbios-utils-bin  x86_64  2.2.26-3.el5    epel


...and yum probably doesn't handle this case well, and rpm is getting really confused (maybe due to what yum is doing, but I think yum is technically right).
 Do you know how you got the .i386 version of smbios-utils-bin installed?
 If this is all from epel, then the smbios-utils-bin package needs a versioned obsoletes added for itself (so it'll move arch.)

 If you want to keep the .i386 version installed ... then just add "exclude = smbios-utils-bin" to your epel repo. configuration.

 If not then this will be your best bet:

yum shell <<EOL
remove  smbios-utils-bin.i386
install smbios-utils-bin.x86_64
run
EOL


...I'm going to close cantfix, as this is really a packaging problem and I think yum is finding _a_ solution ... it's just one the RHEL-5 version of rpm doesn't like.

Comment 6 tfowens 2010-12-06 21:21:31 UTC

Ok, thanks for your help. Tim

Comment 7 tfowens 2010-12-06 21:28:23 UTC

Oh, and I'm not sure how the i386 version installed. We have a twin server and it doesn't seem to be having the same issues, even though the i386 is installed also:

[root@<server2> ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides libsmbios
libsmbios-2.2.19-4.1.el5
[root@<server2> ~]# yum list smbios-utils-bin libsmbios
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished

Installed Packages
libsmbios.i386                                                                    2.2.19-4.1.el5                                                                    installed

smbios-utils-bin.i386                                                                          2.2.19-4.1.el5                                                                    installed

[root@<server2> ~]#

Comment 8 James Antill 2010-12-07 14:17:23 UTC

The working server can't see the updates ... are they excluded?

Comment 9 tfowens 2010-12-07 17:39:22 UTC

The differences I see in the two servers are the /etc/yum.repos.d/ packages.

The working one had only rhel-debuginfo.repo in there.
The broken one had:
rhel-debuginfo.repo
epel.repo
epel-testing.repo
ius.repo
ius-dev.repo
ius-testing.repo

On the broken server, when I moved the above epel* and ius* repo's and did a 'yum update', there was no conflict and it shows the following:

[root@<server> ~]# yum list smbios-utils-bin libsmbios
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Installed Packages
libsmbios.i386                                                                  2.2.19-4.1.el5                                                                  installed

smbios-utils-bin.i386                                                                        2.2.19-4.1.el5                                                                  installed

Comment 10 seth vidal 2010-12-07 17:46:09 UTC

just out of morbid curiosity:
on both systems can you cat /etc/rpm/platform

and see if they are completely the same or not.

Comment 11 tfowens 2010-12-07 18:11:44 UTC

server1 (broken): ia32e-redhat-linux
server2 (working): ia32e-redhat-linux

Comment 12 James Antill 2010-12-07 18:56:47 UTC

Right, so the machine that doesn't work has epel enabled (where the new packages are coming from) ... and the one that works doesn't have it enabled.