Problem during yum update

[toracat]

Richard,

I'm not sure how exactly you got the i386 version of perl on your x86_64 installation. Try removing it and see what happens.

rpm -e perl.i386

If it complains with some dependencies, try

yum remove perl.i386

and [b]inspect the list of packages to be removed[/b]. Make sure you check the arch (i386 vs x86_64). If you are sure they all can go, say Y to to the inquiry (y/N). This way you can delete perl i386.

[EDIT] error in the yum command corrected (Aug 2008)

[richard_chapman]

Thanks Toracat

The first command worked without errors - and the problem is now solved. All updates are now installed properly. Thank you very much for your help.

Richard.

[toracat]

Richard,

I'm glad to hear the problem is gone. Now, I am more curious about the fact you had perl i386 on your x86_64 system. Any idea how this got installed? It could be related to the yum problem I'm trying to figure out, so your info would be valuable.

[richard_chapman]

Hi Toracat

I'm not at all sure how I got the i386 perl installed - but here is the most obvious possibility. Quoting from my notes....
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I instlled sarg 2.2.3.1-1.el5 via yum ? but the X86_64 seamed to have a ?segmentation fault? bug. I uninstalled it via webmin yum ? then installed the 1386 architecture of the same version from the DAG website (Browse and open with firefox on Centos).
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The thing which is a bit strange here is that according to my notes - I installed the i386 version of sarg by just "opening" the rpm file in a browser - so I assume that would just install with rpm. If so - it is a little hard to see how any dependencies would have been installed. If perl i386 was a dependency - it is a bit hard to see how it allowed me to remove perl i386. Also - sarg still appears to be working even after removing the perl i386.

The only other thing I have done involving i386 was to install some sort of "wrapper" for firefox which allows the x86_64 version of firefox to run 32 bit plug ins - because several plugins don't have an x86-64 version. (Flashplayer for one I think).

Not sure that this helps - but I can't think of anything else I have done related to i386. If I think of anything else - I'll post it here - but I'm off overseas for 3 weeks - so probably wont do anything more for a while.

Regards and thanks.

Richard.

[toracat]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the detailed description. So, something apparently "pulled" the i386 version of perl. When you get a chance, would you check /var/log/yum.log or yum.log.1 etc and see if you can find perl there? And if you find it, what else was installed on the same day?

Thanks again for your response.

[richard_chapman]

Hi Toracat

Here is all the stuff I can find from my logs - and I think the yum logs probably go back to when I first installed the system:

[root@C5 ~]# cd /var/log
[root@C5 log]# grep perl yum.log.2
Jun 29 15:52:29 Updated: mod_perl.x86_64 2.0.2-6.3.el5
Jul 30 11:52:01 Updated: perl-Net-DNS.x86_64 0.59-3.el5
Nov 15 18:22:24 Updated: perl.i386 5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
Nov 15 18:22:31 Updated: perl.x86_64 5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
[root@C5 log]# grep perl yum.log.1
Apr 15 18:51:29 Installed: perl-Net-CIDR-Lite.noarch 0.20-2.1.el5
Apr 15 18:51:30 Installed: perl-Mail-SPF-Query.noarch 1.999.1-3.el5
Apr 20 17:03:05 Installed: perl-XML-Parser.x86_64 2.34-6.1.2.2.1
Apr 20 17:03:06 Installed: perl-XML-Simple.noarch 2.14-4.fc6
Apr 20 17:03:06 Installed: perl-XML-NamespaceSupport.noarch 1.09-1.2.1
Apr 20 17:03:08 Installed: perl-XML-SAX.noarch 0.14-5
Apr 20 17:03:09 Installed: perl-XML-Filter-BufferText.noarch 1.01-2.el5
Apr 20 17:03:10 Installed: perl-XML-Validator-Schema.noarch 1.10-1.el5.rf
Jul 25 15:33:33 Installed: perl-XML-LibXML-Common.x86_64 0.13-8.2.2
Jul 25 15:33:48 Installed: perl-XML-LibXML.x86_64 1.58-5
[root@C5 log]# grep perl yum.log
Jul 27 12:19:37 Updated: perl - 4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3.x86_64
[root@C5 log]# ll yum*
-rw------- 1 root root 115 Jul 27 12:19 yum.log
-rw------- 1 root root 38850 Jul 25 16:44 yum.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37024 Dec 4 2007 yum.log.2
[root@C5 log]#

This seems to suggest (to me at least) that it wasn't yum who installed the perl i386. It looks like it was installed quite a while back - and I can't figure out how it got installed...!

Hope this helps. I'm guessing that my problem is not related to our yum problem??

Regards

Richard.

[richard_chapman]

Hi again Toracat

My previous comments were based on the observation that the first reference I could find to perl i386 in the yum log was an "update". The file yum.log.2 starts on June 28 2007. I can't find exactly when I first installed Centos 5 but it was around that time. I did observer that the same day as these updates occurred - another i386 update occurred. Coincidence? I'm not sure what 'pcre" is.

From yum.log.2:

Nov 15 18:22:06 Updated: pcre.x86_64 6.6-2.el5_0.1
Nov 15 18:22:07 Updated: pcre.i386 6.6-2.el5_0.1
Nov 15 18:22:08 Updated: pcre-devel.x86_64 6.6-2.el5_0.1
Nov 15 18:22:24 Updated: perl.i386 5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
Nov 15 18:22:31 Updated: perl.x86_64 5.8.8-10.el5_0.2

Hope this helps.

Richard

[NedSlider]

Hi Richard,

It's normal (well, at least it is on my machine) to have both i386 and x86_64 versions of pcre installed.

PCRE = Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library :-)

[richard_chapman]

Thanks Nedslider...

OK. So I haven't dons something completely daft.. That's reassuring....:-) I think Toracat thought it was abnormal to have both - and having both seemed to cause me a problem with the Centos 5.2 updates. I had to remove the i386 perl so the 5.2 update for perl would install without errors.

I might have to leave this for you and Toracat to solve the mystery - because I'm off overseas in a few hours - and wont be around for 3 weeks. Please keep posting - and I'll try to pick up the threads when I get back

Thanks to all for your help

Richard.

[NedSlider]

[quote]
richard_chapman wrote:
Thanks Nedslider...

OK. So I haven't dons something completely daft.. That's reassuring....:-) I think Toracat thought it was abnormal to have both - and having both seemed to cause me a problem with the Centos 5.2 updates. I had to remove the i386 perl so the 5.2 update for perl would install without errors.

I might have to leave this for you and Toracat to solve the mystery - because I'm off overseas in a few hours - and wont be around for 3 weeks. Please keep posting - and I'll try to pick up the threads when I get back

Thanks to all for your help

Richard.[/quote]

Yes, it's normal to have some packages present in both i386 and x86_64 - just not perl that was causing you the problem.

Have a safe trip and we'll see what toracat has figured out by the time you return :-)