Updates Failing

ss32 · 04-09-2013, 03:20 PM

I'm trying to update a machine running REL5. For some reason or another the updates stopped working awhile back. yum update throws the following error:

Code:

Trying to mimic ('kernel-i686', 'EQ', ('0', '2.6.18', '238.5.1.el5')) which has no kernel modules installed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 219, in main
    (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction() 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 735, in buildTransaction
    self.plugins.run('postresolve', rescode=rescode, restring=restring)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 179, in run
    func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fedorakmod.py", line 326, in postresolve_hook
    installKernelModules(c, newModules, installedModules)
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fedorakmod.py", line 165, in installKernelModules
    for modpo in newModules:
TypeError: iteration over non-sequence

Prior to this I get a whole list of "Bad kmod package '__package name___' does not require a kernel" but from what I've gathered reading old bug reports this isn't anything to worry about. I've looked everywhere online and tried everything I can think of but cannot get past this error. Any ideas? Thanks.

John VV · 04-10-2013, 01:45 PM

For yum and python errors i first look at python

did you by chance also install python 2.6
or a different version of python 2.4

RHEL5.9 has Python 2.4.3 and that exact version is needed for yum to work
the version in RHN must be used !

then what version of red hat enterprise Linux 5 is this ?
the current kernel for 5.9 is kernel-2.6.18-348.1.1.el5 ( well the CentOS 5.9 )

Yours is "238.5.1.el5" -- a bit old

the kernel 238 update was in RHEL 5.6

seeing as this looks to be a RHEL5.6 install
have you done the normal database clean ?

Code:

su -
yum clean all 
rpm --rebuilddb
yum update

also what repos are installed
that " "Bad kmod package '__package name___'"
could be a side affect of incompatible repos installed
rhel5 has a lot of incompatibilities this third party repos ( mostly fixed in RHEL6 )

Code:

su -
yum repolist all

and lastly
with this being RHEL have you contacted red hat tech support
you are , after all, paying red hat a fair amount of cash to keep this at RHEL 5.6

this looks to be a problem

Quote:

/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fedorakmod.py

a fedora plugin on RHEL

though the two are similar
almost none of fedora software will run right on RHEL
it is just way too NEW