[Users] yum update problem on CentOS 5.8 server

[Holger Rabbach (ICT)]

Hi,

I tried to run yum update on a CentOS 5.8 OpenVZ host server today and something strange happened. Yum tries to update vzctl-core to version 4.0-1, which seems to require an updated plop-lib package, but the updated plop-lib package from the yum repository requires a kernel  >= 2.6.32 (CentOS 5 runs on 2.6.18). As a result, the entire update fails. It looks like there are the wrong package versions in the yum repository for RHEL/CentOS 5 - or is there something else going on?

Best regards,
Holger

PS: full output from yum follows:

[root at paul ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: dellsysid, fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.netcologne.de
* epel: ftp.uni-koeln.de
* extras: mirror.netcologne.de
* openvz-kernel-rhel5: openvz.proserve.nl
* openvz-utils: openvz.proserve.nl
* updates: mirror.netcologne.de
base                                                                                                                                  | 1.1 kB     00:00
cr                                                                                                                                    | 1.9 kB     00:00
dell-omsa-indep                                                                                                                       | 1.9 kB     00:00
dell-omsa-specific                                                                                                                    | 1.9 kB     00:00
openvz-kernel-rhel5                                                                                                                   |  951 B     00:00
openvz-utils                                                                                                                          |  951 B     00:00
updates                                                                                                                               | 1.9 kB     00:00
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
Skipping security plugin, no data
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ploop.x86_64 0:1.5-1 set to be updated
---> Package ploop-lib.x86_64 0:1.5-1 set to be updated
---> Package vzctl.x86_64 0:4.0-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1()(64bit) for package: vzctl
---> Package vzctl-core.x86_64 0:4.0-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1(CGROUP_0.32.1)(64bit) for package: vzctl-core
--> Processing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1(CGROUP_0.34)(64bit) for package: vzctl-core
--> Processing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1(CGROUP_0.35)(64bit) for package: vzctl-core
--> Processing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1(CGROUP_0.32)(64bit) for package: vzctl-core
--> Processing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1()(64bit) for package: vzctl-core
--> Processing Conflict: ploop-lib conflicts vzkernel < 2.6.32-042stab061.1
--> Processing Conflict: ploop-lib conflicts vzkernel < 2.6.32-042stab061.1
--> Processing Conflict: ploop-lib conflicts vzkernel < 2.6.32-042stab061.1
--> Processing Conflict: ploop-lib conflicts vzkernel < 2.6.32-042stab061.1
--> Processing Conflict: ploop-lib conflicts vzkernel < 2.6.32-042stab061.1
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 from openvz-utils has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1(CGROUP_0.32)(64bit) is needed by package vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 (openvz-utils)
vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 from openvz-utils has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1(CGROUP_0.35)(64bit) is needed by package vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 (openvz-utils)
vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 from openvz-utils has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1(CGROUP_0.34)(64bit) is needed by package vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 (openvz-utils)
vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 from openvz-utils has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 (openvz-utils)
vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 from openvz-utils has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1(CGROUP_0.32.1)(64bit) is needed by package vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 (openvz-utils)
ploop-lib-1.5-1.x86_64 from openvz-utils has depsolving problems
  --> ploop-lib conflicts with ovzkernel
vzctl-4.0-1.x86_64 from openvz-utils has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package vzctl-4.0-1.x86_64 (openvz-utils)
Error: Missing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package vzctl-4.0-1.x86_64 (openvz-utils)
Error: ploop-lib conflicts with ovzkernel
Error: Missing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 (openvz-utils)
Error: Missing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1(CGROUP_0.34)(64bit) is needed by package vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 (openvz-utils)
Error: Missing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1(CGROUP_0.32.1)(64bit) is needed by package vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 (openvz-utils)
Error: Missing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1(CGROUP_0.35)(64bit) is needed by package vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 (openvz-utils)
Error: Missing Dependency: libcgroup.so.1(CGROUP_0.32)(64bit) is needed by package vzctl-core-4.0-1.x86_64 (openvz-utils)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                        package-cleanup --dupes
                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
[root at paul ~]#

--
Holger Rabbach
Assistant International IT Manager


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