[WBEL-users] Circularity in YUM

[Rafael Baquero S.]

Hi David.

Seems like there is some sort of problem with your RPM database or maybe you 
internet connection or possibly both.

Both XFree86 and up2date are available in mirror.physics.ncsu.edu, I juste 
checked and thera are updated versions for both. If I am not mistaken  
up2date-gnome is a graphical interface for up2date and you mentioned that 
these servers use no GUI so up2date-gnome should not be required. I just 
checked one of my servers (no GUI) and up2date-gnome is not installed. 
redhat-config-network is also a graphical interface. I suggest you try the 
following:

i) Uninstall up2dat-gnome with rpm -e up2date-gnome
ii) Uninstall redhat-config-network with rpm -e redhat-config-network
iii) Update up2date manually with yum update up2date
iv) Update redhat-config-network-tui with yum update 
redhat-config-network-tui.

I think this should fix your problem.

Good luck.

Rafael.

On Sunday 12 December 2004 11:55, david wrote:
> Folks
>
> I am maintaining several systems with WBEL.  Although I tried to perform
> identical initial installations, the process was manual so I'm sure some
> differences occurred.  In one and only one of the systems, every time I
> perform a YUM update, I receive a message notice from the Cron job I use to
> perform updates.  All of these systems are servers, and no GUI is
> installed, as far as I know.
>
>
> Issuing /usr/bin/yum -y -e 0 update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Resolving dependencies
> .....identical dependency loop exceeded
> package up2date-gnome needs up2date = 4.2.5 (not provided)
> package XFree86-Xvfb needs XFree86 = 4.3.0-62.EL (not provided)
> package redhat-config-network needs redhat-config-network-tui = 1.2.60-1
> (not provided)
> Issuing /usr/bin/yum -y -e 0 clean
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Cleaning packages and old headers
>
> On other systems, I get perfectly clean results.
>
> On ALL systems, I am using yum.conf as follows:
>
> ---------------------------  begin yum.conf
>
>
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=whitebox-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=1
> retries=20
> failovermethod=roundrobin
> gpgcheck=1
>
> [base]
> name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
> baseurl=ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basea
>rch/ #
> ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
> #
> ftp://ftp.kspei.com/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$b
>asearch/ #
> ftp://ftp.jach.hawaii.edu/pub/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
> #
> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/whiteboxlinux/$releasever/en/os/$basearch
>/ #
> ftp://ftp.opensourcemirrors.org/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
> #        http://whitebox.phantomhosting.com/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/
>
> [updates-released]
> name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
> baseurl=ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/
> #       
> ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/$releasever/en/updates/ #
> ftp://ftp.kspei.com/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/whitebox/$releasever/en/updat
>es/ #       
> ftp://ftp.jach.hawaii.edu/pub/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/ #
> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/whiteboxlinux/$releasever/en/updates/
> #       
> ftp://ftp.opensourcemirrors.org/linux/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/ #   
>     http://whitebox.phantomhosting.com/$releasever/en/updates/
>
> ---------------------------  end yum.conf
>
> Also, on all systems, I performed a yum clean headers to allows the
> databases to regenerate.
>
> Help?  Is there some other information I could supply?
>
> David
>
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