Re: [vserver] Can't install Centos guest after 5.3 upgrade

From: John Alberts <john.m.alberts_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon 06 Apr 2009 - 16:21:45 BST
Message-ID: <a23b6f900904060821l48a5fd0ck8a9ccf1e59a74a45@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks Herbert. I'll give that a try.

John

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:07:11PM -0500, John Alberts wrote:
>> Herbert,
>
>> Sorry.  I meant to also mention that I looked into patching yum.
>> I wasn't really sure how to do it.
>
>> I found patches in /usr/share/doc/util-vserver-build-0.30.216/
>> with the latest version being yum-3.2.4-chroot.patch.
>
> that's good ...
>
>> It looks like I have a newer version of yum, because
>> yum --version shows:
>> [root@vserver util-vserver-build-0.30.216]# yum --version
>> 3.2.19
>>   Installed: yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5.x86_64 at 2008-09-09 17:47
>>   Built    : [] at 2008-05-24 19:52
>>   Committed: James Antill <james.antill@redhat.com> at 2008-01-18 22:00
>>
>>   Installed: rpm-4.4.2.3-9.el5.x86_64 at 2009-04-02 14:17
>>   Built    : [] at 2009-01-21 08:04
>>   Committed: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> at 2008-12-02 22:00
>>
>>   Installed: yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch at 2009-04-02 14:49
>>   Built    : [] at 2009-01-22 10:53
>>   Committed: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh@centos.org> at 2009-01-22 22:00
>
> if the patch above fails for that one, you might
> ask Daniel nicely to update the patch once again
>
>> How would I go about patching yum?
>
> get the source (wget, curl, etc ...), apply the patch
> with patch (e.g. cd /path/to/source; patch -p1 </path/to/patch),
> configure, compile, install (you might do all that in an
> RPM spec file, to get a proper package too)
>
> HTH,
> Herbert
>
>> Thanks
>> John
>
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:47:00AM -0500, John Alberts wrote:
>> >> Hi.  I have a CentOS host that I recently upgraded from 5.1 to 5.3.
>> >> All of the guests that I currently have on their have been built the
>> >> same way (using the yum build method).  Today, and I get a warning at
>> >> the beginning about yum needing to be patched.  It then tries to build
>> >> the guest but fails.  Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this
>> >> please?
>> >
>> > well, my guess would be to patch yum :)
>> >
>> >> Here's the output of trying to install a guest:
>> >>
>> >> [root@vserver vservers]# vserver chidns01lsna build -m yum --context
>> >> 1002 --hostname chidns01lsna.mydomain.com --interface eth0:10.1.1.1/24
>> >> -- -d centos5
>> >> You are using a version of yum which is insecure and broken in chroot
>> >> related operations; either apply the patches shipped in the 'contrib/'
>> >> directory of util-vserver, or ask the author of yum to apply them
>> >> (preferred).
>> >
>> > sounds quite descriptive to me ... no?
>> >
>> >> In the meantime, 'vyum' will continue with dirty hacks which might not
>> >> work when the vserver is running and local DOS attacks are possible.
>> >
>> > best,
>> > Herbert
>> >
>> >> Execution will continue in 5 seconds...
>> >>
>> >> ================================================================================
>> >>  Package            Arch         Version                       Repository  Size
>> >> ================================================================================
>> >> Installing:
>> >>  glibc              x86_64       2.5-34                        base       4.7 M
>> >>  glibc              i686         2.5-34                        base       5.2 M
>> >> Installing for dependencies:
>> >>  basesystem         noarch       8.0-5.1.1.el5.centos          base       2.8 k
>> >>  filesystem         x86_64       2.4.0-2.el5.centos            base       117 k
>> >>  glibc-common       x86_64       2.5-34                        base        16 M
>> >>  libgcc             x86_64       4.1.2-44.el5                  base        96 k
>> >>  setup              noarch       2.5.58-4.el5                  base       124 k
>> >>  tzdata             noarch       2008i-1.el5                   base       756 k
>> >>
>> >> Transaction Summary
>> >> ================================================================================
>> >> Install      8 Package(s)
>> >> Update       0 Package(s)
>> >> Remove       0 Package(s)
>> >>
>> >> Total download size: 27 M
>> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 366, in callback
>> >>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 400,
>> >> in _transStart
>> >>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 343, in ts_all
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 159, in makedirs
>> >> OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/vservers/chidns01lsna/..'
>> >> error: python callback <bound method RPMTransaction.callback of
>> >> <yum.rpmtrans.RPMTransaction instance at 0x110c758>> failed, aborting!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> John Alberts
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> John Alberts
>

-- 
John Alberts
Received on Mon Apr 6 16:22:02 2009
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