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Old 03-22-2011, 11:42 AM   #1
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Trying to Update CentOS 4.0 to 4.9


I have tried updating my boxes to 4.9 Final issuing the command:

'yum update'

Code:
# CentOS-Base.repo
#
# This file uses a new mirrorlist system developed by the CentOS Team.
# The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the
# update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and
# geographically close to the client.  You should use this for CentOS updates
# unless you are manually picking other mirrors.
#
# If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the 
# remarked out baseurl= line instead.
#
#

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
priority=1
protect=1

#released updates 
[update]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
priority=1
protect=1

#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=addons
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
priority=1
protect=1

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
priority=1
protect=1

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
priority=2
protect=1

#contrib - packages by Centos Users
[contrib]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=contrib
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
priority=2
protect=1
 
Old 03-22-2011, 12:03 PM   #2
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Cool story bra.
 
Old 03-22-2011, 12:10 PM   #3
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Did it work? Was there an error?
 
Old 03-22-2011, 12:12 PM   #4
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Did it work? Was there an error?
At first all it did was update a lot of packages. Then after that I checked and it was still 4.0. Now if you use the command, it says theres nothing to do and I have tried yum clean all. So it seems it is stuck. I have 3 machines that I did this way and one was successful and the other 2 are not. So The repo file I have provided above I took from the 4.9 box and put into the 4.0's to try it and bummer...
 
Old 03-22-2011, 12:20 PM   #5
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kitek View Post
At first all it did was update a lot of packages. Then after that I checked and it was still 4.0. Now if you use the command, it says theres nothing to do and I have tried yum clean all. So it seems it is stuck. I have 3 machines that I did this way and one was successful and the other 2 are not. So The repo file I have provided above I took from the 4.9 box and put into the 4.0's to try it and bummer...
I believe, if you check, that your entire system is up to date, and in fact running 4.9. But, the /etc/redhat-release file is old and not updated.

You can do a:

Code:
rpm -qa|grep release
to see what is installed

and probably:

Code:
yum install centos-release-4-9.el4.centos
To update it
 
Old 03-22-2011, 12:48 PM   #6
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I believe, if you check, that your entire system is up to date, and in fact running 4.9. But, the /etc/redhat-release file is old and not updated.

You can do a:

Code:
rpm -qa|grep release
to see what is installed

and probably:

Code:
yum install centos-release-4-9.el4.centos
To update it
Code:
login as: root
root@ns2.domain.com's password:
Last login: Tue Mar 22 12:35:55 2011 from 127.0.0.1
[root@ns2 ~]# rpm -qa | grep release
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#       2 region trailer: BAD, tag 7674112 type 19887475 offset -1915710569 count 1647276153
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#       4 region trailer: BAD, tag 1635004004 type 1698570289 offset -775433778 count 758199552
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#       6 region trailer: BAD, tag 541943155 type 1629517413 offset -1920166255 count 1847601262
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      10 region trailer: BAD, tag 1117 type 8 offset -9024 count 3
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      12 region trailer: BAD, tag 757093744 type 1684108389 offset -543584879 count 1830833747
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      16 region trailer: BAD, tag 1885696620 type 1717662005 offset -779120484 count 19791872
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      18 region trailer: BAD, tag 1697539170 type 6841708 offset -1885759852 count 1694526575
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      20 region trailer: BAD, tag 0 type 0 offset -65536 count 0
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      22 region trailer: BAD, tag 0 type 0 offset -65536 count 0
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      26 region trailer: BAD, tag 1949197167 type 1832788013 offset -540028467 count 774974769
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      28 region trailer: BAD, tag 1629514099 type 543780384 offset -1629515881 count 1885675636
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      30 region trailer: BAD, tag 1702043753 type 1713402469 offset -1633966185 count 1852142692
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      34 region trailer: BAD, tag 0 type 0 offset 0 count 0
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      40 region trailer: BAD, tag 1919233892 type 1868771172 offset -1836212585 count 1680683310
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      42 region trailer: BAD, tag 539912502 type 943074930 offset -1886194221 count 543253604
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      44 region trailer: BAD, tag 1930046752 type 1953653102 offset -1936482676 count 1768910368
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      46 region trailer: BAD, tag 1346456927 type 1431520594 offset -1599426123 count 1313822542
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      48 region trailer: BAD, tag 1668246846 type 5534319 offset -1852055621 count 1769367918
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      50 region trailer: BAD, tag 9 type 10 offset -11 count 12
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      54 region trailer: BAD, tag 999 type 2 offset -1064 count 6
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      56 region trailer: BAD, tag 1953064553 type 1819567474 offset -1601661294 count 1685026606
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      58 region trailer: BAD, tag 543385697 type 1852269924 offset -543255660 count 544499813
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      60 region trailer: BAD, tag 1862934560 type 796226418 offset -796092513 count 1919233892
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      62 region trailer: BAD, tag 1970500143 type 1936220530 offset -1697603952 count 1886153059
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      66 region trailer: BAD, tag 1932354415 type 1852205415 offset -544501536 count 1668640883
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      68 region trailer: BAD, tag 1915494498 type 2053730354 offset -543711603 count 544499813
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      70 region trailer: BAD, tag 1847612535 type 1701143657 offset -1694510368 count 1633969253
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      72 region trailer: BAD, tag 841887790 type 842214707 offset -5136748 count 1768824900
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      78 region trailer: BAD, tag -1622334804 type -1587785800 offset 876813750 count -1302290309
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      80 region trailer: BAD, tag 1196181826 type 1130312238 offset -824770668 count 1768055598
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      82 region trailer: BAD, tag 543780384 type 796090985 offset -1848600942 count 1937006956
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      84 region trailer: BAD, tag 858927461 type 1701066545 offset -962738022 count 842293816
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      86 region trailer: BAD, tag 874522659 type 909391411 offset -824770605 count 544568165
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      88 region trailer: BAD, tag 0 type 0 offset 0 count 0
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      90 region trailer: BAD, tag 1818848871 type 2957429 offset -1885626740 count 1696622194
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      92 region trailer: BAD, tag 65536 type 0 offset 0 count 0
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      94 region trailer: BAD, tag 0 type 0 offset 0 count 0
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      96 region trailer: BAD, tag 1664312064 type 943153505 offset -926246448 count 828585264
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#      98 region trailer: BAD, tag 38666241 type 38862849 offset -39059457 count 39256065
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     100 region trailer: BAD, tag 912668214 type 895629110 offset -859399217 count 962736951
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     102 region trailer: BAD, tag 1095779666 type 4997983 offset -1413827653 count 1346916174
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     106 region trailer: BAD, tag 1342177352 type 1375731791 offset -1375731894 count 1375731906
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     108 region trailer: BAD, tag 2289 type 17 offset -1053 count 4
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     110 region trailer: BAD, tag 1885696620 type 676097891 offset -1634493754 count 978149739
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     118 region trailer: BAD, tag 796092513 type 1919233792 offset -796226418 count 796092513
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     120 region trailer: BAD, tag 1953460857 type 4669952 offset -1195519301 count 1769104640
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     124 region trailer: BAD, tag 1869819503 type 1919368704 offset -1147500133 count 1819242605
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     126 region trailer: BAD, tag 1915708009 type 1848573999 offset -1970500143 count 1936220530
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     130 region trailer: BAD, tag 0 type 1375731713 offset -1375731714 count 1375731715
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     138 region trailer: BAD, tag 825439537 type 1647404594 offset -959472441 count 1681219888
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     140 region trailer: BAD, tag 1463825483 type 1203778473 offset -524301111 count -1103080855
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     154 region trailer: BAD, tag 1667589425 type 1701065269 offset -959657827 count 1647443968
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     156 region trailer: BAD, tag 1634952480 type 1718775661 offset -541158501 count 1802724729
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     162 region trailer: BAD, tag 1818321765 type 689989231 offset -1914724725 count 1953443370
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     166 region trailer: BAD, tag 1701650501 type 1853254002 offset -1869507941 count 1853108034
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     172 region trailer: BAD, tag -1684738638 type -1948647158 offset -106 count 16777226
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     174 region trailer: BAD, tag 117440554 type 2 offset -134217770 count 8
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     176 region trailer: BAD, tag 0 type 0 offset -8 count 0
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     178 region trailer: BAD, tag 771 type 771 offset -771 count 771
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     180 region trailer: BAD, tag -1303304900 type 2087304597 offset 1322708911 count 22020096
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     182 region trailer: BAD, tag 2816 type 56338 offset -353 count 1918849860
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     184 region trailer: BAD, tag 926102569 type 771763488 offset -1836021349 count 544437365
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     186 region trailer: BAD, tag 1919706478 type 678655090 offset -689989998 count 1937007969
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     188 region trailer: BAD, tag 1701735282 type 1634037370 offset -1701978172 count 1650815599
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     190 region trailer: BAD, tag 1124098933 type 1886596460 offset -1768059648 count 825110830
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     192 region trailer: BAD, tag 1195392372 type -1539293837 offset -1388330259 count 356531436
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     194 region trailer: BAD, tag 1013866860 type 1768833138 offset -1701079137 count 1949197167
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     198 region trailer: BAD, tag 3808 type 1 offset -1127 count 4
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     206 region trailer: BAD, tag 6412 type 1 offset -1124102244 count 1802725376
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     208 region trailer: BAD, tag 0 type 0 offset 0 count 0
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     210 region trailer: BAD, tag 1986338924 type 1869048163 offset -544436077 count 1702324321
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     212 region trailer: BAD, tag 1986338924 type 1869029478 offset -1768711539 count 2957416
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     214 region trailer: BAD, tag 1165597205 type 746088465 offset -647610594 count -1074969106
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     216 region trailer: BAD, tag 858927401 type 2957422 offset -1869768048 count 1818321765
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     218 region trailer: BAD, tag 11 type 193 offset -11 count 221
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     220 region trailer: BAD, tag -1322892774 type -1323482598 offset 1323220454 count -1322892774
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     222 region trailer: BAD, tag 778533376 type 1633903471 offset -1970172928 count 1885430627
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     226 region trailer: BAD, tag -1831274794 type -2137358899 offset -63 count 7
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     230 region trailer: BAD, tag 544175208 type 1701978177 offset -1112088677 count 1853254002
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     234 region trailer: BAD, tag 1664495669 type 1650800949 offset -3486002 count 1697985586
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     238 region trailer: BAD, tag 24117248 type 4456448 offset -110798 count -335950169
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     240 region trailer: BAD, tag 0 type 0 offset 0 count 0
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     242 region trailer: BAD, tag 1886088809 type 1920164712 offset -1081238884 count 1751217198
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     244 region trailer: BAD, tag 828454969 type 1684432185 offset -909652069 count 1700947043
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     246 region trailer: BAD, tag 1668246846 type 4551273 offset -1797280882 count 1868656160
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     252 region trailer: BAD, tag 540828277 type 1736075628 offset -1818312818 count 1701079137
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     254 region trailer: BAD, tag 4 type 8600 offset -23 count 1117
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     257 region trailer: BAD, tag 1 type 781020161 offset 939524096 count 201326592
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     259 region trailer: BAD, tag 0 type 0 offset 0 count 0
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     265 region trailer: BAD, tag 1931501856 type 1986097769 offset -1633840229 count 544104813
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     267 region trailer: BAD, tag 0 type 0 offset 0 count 0
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     269 region trailer: BAD, tag 7104866 type 1734566751 offset -1932424047 count 774973511
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     271 region trailer: BAD, tag 1931497328 type 1701729107 offset -1277190753 count 1936024608
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     273 region trailer: BAD, tag 1869575168 type 1919905652 offset -7499631 count 1946186351
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     277 region trailer: BAD, tag 541548902 type 1953459744 offset -1013408102 count 1953459776
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     279 region trailer: BAD, tag 1128808782 type 1195725568 offset -1213159252 count 1328368993
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     281 region trailer: BAD, tag 1000 type 6 offset -2 count 1
error: db4 error(-30988) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found
[root@ns2 ~]#
Then the second command I get:

Code:
[root@ns2 ~]# yum install centos-release-4-9.el4.centos
error: db4 error(-30988) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 80, in main
    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 170, in getOptionsConfig
    self.doConfigSetup(fn=opts.conffile, root=root)
  File "__init__.py", line 82, in doConfigSetup
  File "config.py", line 273, in __init__
  File "config.py", line 391, in _getsysver
StopIteration
Now the other server I get something different. It appears to be updated but:

Code:
[root@data ~]# rpm -qa | grep release
centos-release-4-9.1
[root@data ~]#
Then the Second Command:

Code:
[root@data ~]# yum install centos-release-4-9.el4.centos
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: centos-release-4-9.el4.centos
Nothing to do
[root@data ~]#
Now that one in webmin still shows it as 4.0 but not sure why.
 
Old 03-22-2011, 09:49 PM   #7
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Those rpm errors are worrying, have you tried

rpm --rebuilddb

http://linux.die.net/man/8/rpm
 
Old 03-23-2011, 12:22 PM   #8
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Those rpm errors are worrying, have you tried

rpm --rebuilddb

http://linux.die.net/man/8/rpm
Well I have now. It did remove the errors but, yum still ends with nothing to do and when you check the version, it just goes to the next line. Should I replace the repo file again from a current one?
 
Old 03-24-2011, 08:36 AM   #9
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Well I have now. It did remove the errors but, yum still ends with nothing to do and when you check the version, it just goes to the next line. Should I replace the repo file again from a current one?
The other thing is that the servers seem to be running just fine.
 
  


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