Created attachment 313639 [details] screenshot1 [screenshot1] It appears that modviersions need to be installed prior to kmod-xenpv-smp. Retrying, the pacakges were schedule in separate events with modversion first. [screenshot2[ root@ra-vm5:~/.vnc > rhn_check -v Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- modversions 1.0 4.el4_6.1 x86_64 No advisory information available Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- kmod-xenpv-smp 0.1 10.el4 x86_64 No advisory information available root@ra-vm5:~/.vnc > [screenshot3] Since this is not working and not providing enough details, the packages will be downloaded then installed.
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Stephen, The failure to install may be related to SELinux. Found this in /var/adm/log. The SELinux tools on 4 are not what I am used to on 5, so not 100% sure but the timing looks like it could have been in the ball park and that it is from "up2date". Aug 6 13:24:54 ra-vm5 kernel: audit(1218043494.633:2): avc: denied { transition } for pid=6601 comm="userhelper" name="up2date" dev=dm-0 ino=105125 scontext=root:system_r:initrc_t tcontext=root:sysadm_r:unconfined_t tclass=process spr
By the way, I'm not the requester for this bug, just passing it along. sreichar is the real requester.
Tried on another 4.7 virtual machine. I failed like the other out of the box. I set SELinux toe Permissive. It failed I shutdown iptables. It failed. All errors point to rpm failure (code 32). On original node, package was downloaded and installed using rpm -ivh without failure (at least for the install) root@ra-vm8:~ > rhn_check -v Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- modversions 1.0 4.el4_6.1 x86_64 No advisory information available root@ra-vm8:~ > getenforce Permissive root@ra-vm8:~ > rpm -qa| grep modversions root@ra-vm8:~ > service iptables stop Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ] Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter [ OK ] Unloading iptables modules: [ OK ] root@ra-vm8:~ > rhn_check -v Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- modversions 1.0 4.el4_6.1 x86_64 No advisory information available root@ra-vm8:~ > rpm -qa| grep modversions root@ra-vm8:~ >
Okay, so a brief summary of the problem: installing modversions via RHN Hosted's webui fails, installing modversions via up2date fails, installing modversions via downloading the rpm and 'rpm -ivh' works. Attempting to install modversions with up2date and with debug-level verboseness turned on (up2date -vvvvv modversions) gives this message: Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... D: Candidates for the selected list: [['modversions', '1.0', '4.el4_6.1', '', 'i386', '20084', 'rhel-i386-as-4']] D: Omitting package modversions in channel rhel-i386-as-4 from transaction set: it is obsoleted by package module-init-tools D: Checking for dependencies D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: Running transaction (final step)... D: ========== recording tsort relations D: ========== tsorting packages (order, #predecessors, #succesors, tree, depth) ######################################## D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: ========== recording tsort relations D: ========== tsorting packages (order, #predecessors, #succesors, tree, depth) D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages There was a fatal RPM install error. The message was: Failed running rpm transaction D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages Notice line 3: modversions is obsoleted by module-init-tools, so up2date refuses to install it. Steve: try using module-init-tools to do whatever you were using modversions for. This is still a bug however, since there was no indication whatsoever that this was the problem until we dug through debug output. The failure message should be at least a little indicative of what the problem was. Transferring to the appropriate group to fix up2date.
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