Bug 670060 – yum update fails on xen component error

Bug 670060 - yum update fails on xen component error

Summary:	yum update fails on xen component error

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	yum (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.8
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	low Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	James Antill
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Reported:	2011-01-16 20:51 EST by Geoff Quelch
Modified:	2014-01-21 01:20 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2011-01-19 14:50:27 EST
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Output from "yum update". (21.31 KB, application/octet-stream) 2011-01-17 15:20 EST, Geoff Quelch	no flags	Details
Output from yum -y update (21.74 KB, application/octet-stream) 2011-01-17 15:30 EST, Geoff Quelch	no flags	Details
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Description Geoff Quelch 2011-01-16 20:51:06 EST

Description of problem: yum update fails with message:

ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
xen-libs is needed by (installed) xen-3.0.3-80.el5.i386

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


How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run "yum update"
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
See error.

Expected results:
yum update completes

Additional info:

Comment 1 Miroslav Rezanina 2011-01-17 02:38:07 EST

Hi Geoff,
can you please provide following infos:

output of rpm -qa "xen*"
output of uname -a
full output of yum update

Comment 2 Geoff Quelch 2011-01-17 15:20:32 EST

Created attachment 473924 [details]
Output from "yum update".

Output from "yum update".

Comment 3 Geoff Quelch 2011-01-17 15:30:04 EST

Created attachment 473927 [details]
Output from yum -y update

Comment 4 Geoff Quelch 2011-01-17 15:31:29 EST

[root@ndws00 ~]# rpm -qa "xen"
xen-3.0.3-80.el5
[root@ndws00 ~]# uname -a
Linux ndws00.deos.udel.edu 2.6.18-194.11.3.el5 #1 SMP Mon Aug 23 15:49:21 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Comment 5 Miroslav Rezanina 2011-01-18 01:23:21 EST

Thanks...just to output of rpm -qa..It should be rpm -qa "xen*" (with star to list all xen packages). Anyway, I see no problem from xen perspective. Reassign to yum to check what's wrong.

Comment 6 James Antill 2011-01-18 09:30:47 EST

Actually run these commands instead:

rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
yum list 'xen*'

Comment 7 Geoff Quelch 2011-01-19 12:46:24 EST

[root@ndws00 ~]# rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Unsatisfied dependencies for xen-3.0.3-80.el5.i386: xen-libs = 3.0.3-80.el5

and

[root@ndws00 ~]# yum list 'xen*'
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
/usr/lib/python2.4/xmllib.py:9: DeprecationWarning: The xmllib module is obsolete.  Use xml.sax instead.
  warnings.warn("The xmllib module is obsolete.  Use xml.sax instead.", DeprecationWarning)
Installed Packages
xen.i386                                            3.0.3-80.el5                                            installed
xen-libs.i386                                       3.0.3-105.el5_5.5                                       installed
Available Packages
xen-libs.i386                                       3.0.3-120.el5                                           rhel-i386-server-5

Thanks.

Comment 8 James Antill 2011-01-19 14:50:27 EST

Right, fix the pre-existing problems in the rpmdb and yum will be happy (yum assumes that the rpmdb is good before depsolving, rpm doesn't so much).

Comment 9 Geoff Quelch 2011-01-19 15:45:16 EST

OK, so what's wrong with the rpmdb and how do I fix it?
Thanks.

Comment 10 James Antill 2011-01-19 16:11:37 EST

You have a package already installed "xen" which has a requirement "xen-libs = 3.0.3-80.el5" which isn't met. This shouldn't be possible.

You could "yum remove xen" (or rpm -e xen), or try:

yum install "xen-libs = 3.0.3-80.el5"

...after the rpmdb is fixed, yum should work fine.

Comment 11 Geoff Quelch 2011-01-19 16:34:15 EST

Since we don't use xen, I simply removed the xen packages and dependencies.
Re-running the yum update seems to be working fine now.

Many thanks for your help.
Geoff Quelch

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