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Old 04-17-2007, 11:51 AM   #1
carlosinfl
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Up2date Error On New Server


I just got a new server up and running and ran the register command with the "up2date --register" command and that went fine however now I want to update the system just like I would run yum upgrade or apt-get upgrade, I can't seem to understand why I can't upgrade this RHEL 4.4 machine.

Here is what I see:

Code:
New Up2date available
Preparing              ########################################### [100%]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1245, in ?
    sys.exit(main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 800, in main
    fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1119, in batchRun
    batch.run()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 86, in run
    self.__installPackages()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 170, in __installPackages
    self.kernelsToInstall = up2date.installPackages(self.packagesToInstall, self.rpmCallback)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 752, in installPackages
    runTransaction(ts, added, removed,rpmCallback, rollbacktrans = rollbacktrans)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 632, in runTransaction
    rpmUtils.runTransaction(ts,rpmCallback, transdir)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmUtils.py", line 511, in runTransaction
    "Failed running transaction of  packages: %s") % errors, deps=rc)
up2date_client.up2dateErrors.TransactionError: RPM  error. The message was:
Failed running transaction of  packages:
('file /usr/lib/libwiretap.so.0.0.1 conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/lib/libwiretap.so.0.0.1', 0L))
('file /usr/sbin/capinfos conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/sbin/capinfos', 0L))
('file /usr/sbin/dftest conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/sbin/dftest', 0L))
('file /usr/sbin/dumpcap conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/sbin/dumpcap', 0L))
('file /usr/sbin/editcap conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/sbin/editcap', 0L))
('file /usr/sbin/mergecap conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/sbin/mergecap', 0L))
('file /usr/sbin/randpkt conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/sbin/randpkt', 0L))
('file /usr/sbin/tethereal conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/sbin/tethereal', 0L))
('file /usr/sbin/text2pcap conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/sbin/text2pcap', 0L))
('file /usr/share/man/man1/capinfos.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/share/man/man1/capinfos.1.gz', 0L))
('file /usr/share/man/man1/dumpcap.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/share/man/man1/dumpcap.1.gz', 0L))
('file /usr/share/man/man1/editcap.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/share/man/man1/editcap.1.gz', 0L))
('file /usr/share/man/man1/mergecap.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/share/man/man1/mergecap.1.gz', 0L))
('file /usr/share/man/man1/text2pcap.1.gz conflicts between attempted installs of ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1', (6, '/usr/share/man/man1/text2pcap.1.gz', 0L))
 
Old 04-17-2007, 12:08 PM   #2
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Err.......the problem is with ethereal-0.99.0-EL4.2 and wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1 which is strange.

Solution remove ethereal and install wireshark (the new name for ethereal BTW);

rpm -e ethereal

32-bit
Code:
rpm -ivh http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4.4/updates/i386/RPMS/wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1.i386.rpm
64-bit
Code:
rpm -ivh http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4.4/updates/x86_64/RPMS/wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1.x86_64.rpm
Yes, I'm cheating a bit, but it works!!!

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Old 04-17-2007, 12:40 PM   #3
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So your saying that because if 2 .RPM problems, it wont update the entire system? I would think it would ignore those 2 packages and continue the rest of the update update process, no?
 
Old 04-17-2007, 06:23 PM   #4
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An error is an error, it does not matter how many other files are not in conflict. The up2date application is not designed to pick and choose or make a correction for you. It can only compare what is installed and what is newer then this and update. Thinking is for us humans, computers still cannot think for themselves and make intelligent decisions for us (Thank God).
 
  


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