[vserver] guests in centos 5.8

From: Erik Pepermans <cpu1_at_telenet.be>
Date: Fri 09 Nov 2012 - 12:43:04 GMT
Message-ID: <000801cdbe77$c3285b40$497911c0$@be>

Hi,

 

Have installed latest version of vserver and vserver-utils after having
below problem, but problem remains in the latest version as well :

 

Tried to install new guest on centos 5.8 system (has worked before) :

 

#vserver events build -m yum --hostname events.goetze.be --interface
eth0:192.168.3.104/24 -- -d centos5

 

Gives :

 

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).

 

In the meantime, 'vyum' will continue with dirty hacks which might not

work when the vserver is running and local DOS attacks are possible.

 

Execution will continue in 5 seconds...

 

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Package Arch Version
Repository Size

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Installing:

glibc i686 2.5-81.el5_8.7
updates 5.4 M

glibc x86_64 2.5-81.el5_8.7
updates 4.8 M

Installing for dependencies:

basesystem noarch
8.0-5.1.1.el5.centos base 2.8
k

filesystem x86_64
2.4.0-3.el5.centos base 1.0
M

glibc-common x86_64 2.5-81.el5_8.7
updates 16 M

libgcc x86_64
4.1.2-52.el5_8.1 updates 99
k

setup noarch 2.5.58-9.el5
base 125 k

tzdata x86_64 2012f-1.el5
updates 779 k

 

Transaction Summary

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Install 8 Package(s)

Upgrade 0 Package(s)

 

Total download size: 29 M

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 360, in
callback

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 397, in
_transStart

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 340, 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/events/..'

error: python callback <bound method RPMTransaction.callback of
<yum.rpmtrans.RPMTransaction instance at 0x1f0bcb0>> failed, aborting!

 

Please help
Received on Fri Nov 9 12:43:13 2012

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