[Triumf-linux-managers] Update failures on SL-5

[Kelvin Raywood]

For managers of SL-5 machines.

Nightly updates via yum-cron or yum-autoupdate have failed for the last 
couple of days.  This causes an e-mail to root such as the one appended 
below.  Of course you should have root e-mail redirected to someone who 
reads it.

* Reason for failure

A dependency problem was introduced into the Scientific-Linux updates 
repository and replicated on our mirror.

* Resolution

The SL maintainers are testing a fix.  It should hit our mirrors in a 
day or two.  If your machine was up-to-date before this problem was 
introduced, then there's no need for concern as there have been no other 
security updates since.  However, if you really want to update manually 
you can do:

     yum --skip-broken update

* References

The difference between the nightly update mechanisms (yum-cron and 
yum-autodate) is explained at:
http://it-services.triumf.ca/computing/linux/packages#automatic-security-updates

To redirect root e-mail see:
http://it-services.triumf.ca/computing/linux/kickstarts#post-installation

--
Kel Raywood
Core Computing and Networking
TRIUMF


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Cron <root at trprint> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
Date: Tue,  3 Aug 2010 05:33:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: root at trprint.triumf.ca (Cron Daemon)
To: root at trprint.triumf.ca

/etc/cron.daily/yum-cron:

lvm2-2.02.56-8.el5_5.6.x86_64 from sl-security has depsolving problems
   --> Missing Dependency: device-mapper >= 1.02.39-1.el5_5.1 is needed 
by package lvm2-2.02.56-8.el5_5.6.x86_64 (sl-security)
Error: Missing Dependency: device-mapper >= 1.02.39-1.el5_5.1 is needed 
by package lvm2-2.02.56-8.el5_5.6.x86_64 (sl-security)