[Users] yum update problem on CentOS 5.8 server

[Kir Kolyshkin]

On 09/26/2012 05:32 PM, Holger Rabbach (ICT) wrote:
>
> Thanks for the quick reply, I’ll stay with the old version for now. 
> The host server will move to CentOS 6 in the not too distant future 
> anyway, it’s just not something I can do right away.
>

So I just solved the libcgroup dependency issue by adding libcgroup into 
the repository.

Now you can remove ploop packages and update vzctl. To do it in one 
transaction, you can use yum-shell:

# yum shell
 > update vzctl
 > remove ploop\*
 > run

> Regards,
>
> Holger
>
> -- 
>
> Holger Rabbach
>
> Assistant International IT Manager
>
> *From:*Kir Kolyshkin [mailto:kir at openvz.org]
> *Sent:* Mittwoch, 26. September 2012 15:13
> *To:* users at openvz.org
> *Cc:* Holger Rabbach (ICT)
> *Subject:* Re: [Users] yum update problem on CentOS 5.8 server
>
> On 09/26/2012 04:46 PM, Holger Rabbach (ICT) wrote:
>
>     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?
>
>
> There are two problems here:
>
> 1 ploop
>
> Since you have RHEL5-based kernel that do not require ploop, you can 
> remove ploop when installing vzctl-4.0. I have made vzctl not 
> requiring ploop by dynamically loading it when it's available. Note 
> that vzctl is not requiring ploop anymore, it just conflicts with the 
> old version of it.
>
> 2 libcgroup
>
> Currently I don't have a solution rather than compiling libcgroup from 
> source. I will take a closer look in the coming days and find a fix.
>
> In the meantime,
> - please stay with vzctl-3.3 and
> - maybe it's a good time for switching to RHEL6 kernel which has a lot 
> of nice features such as VSwap.
>
>
> 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 <ftp://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 ~]#
>
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