Re: [vserver] guests in centos 5.8

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat 10 Nov 2012 - 18:53:40 GMT
Message-ID: <20121110185340.GD8563@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 01:43:04PM +0100, Erik Pepermans wrote:
> 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).

sounds like that is what you want to do first, if the
issue remains after that, I'm sure Daniel will be happy
to take a look

> 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...

> ============================================================================
> ==================================================================

> Package Arch Version
> Repository Size

> ============================================================================
> ==================================================================

> 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

> ============================================================================
> ==================================================================

> 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/..'

IMHO it's a good thing that /vservers/events/.. exists,
the main question is why does it upset yum and why does
python? claim it's a file?

best,
Herbert

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

> Please help
Received on Sat Nov 10 18:53:45 2012

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