[Triumf-linux-managers] same for el6, Re: bum update of el7 rpcbind

[Konstantin Olchanski]

> This morning a bum update of rpcbind landed from the sky. rpcbind does not run

the same bum update for el6 arrived, all SL6 machines are now broken, too.

baad: rpcbind.x86_64 0:0.2.0-13.el6_9
good: rpcbind.x86_64 0:0.2.0-13.el6

Partial fix: (does not block automatic update)
yum downgrade rpcbind; service ypserv restart; service ypbind restart

Bug reports:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1454876
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1455142


K.O.


On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:48:06AM -0700, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> 
> This morning a bum update of rpcbind landed from the sky. rpcbind does not run (crashes soon 
> after start), ypwhich reports "ypwhich: Can't communicate with ypbind", everything else seem
> okey so far, but probably will not survive a reboot. rpcbind is needed for NIS and NFS, I think.
> 
> A solution is to "yum downgrade rpcbind" to previous version rpcbind-0.2.0-38.el7.x86_64,
> but also need to disable all automatic updates, or the new bad package will become reinstalled.
> 
> The bad package is this:
> # rpm -q rpcbind
> rpcbind-0.2.0-38.el7_3.x86_64
> 
> Bug report is this: (for more info follow links from bug report)
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1454876
> 
> All the DAQ el7 machines are affected by this problem. Ouch.
> K.O.
> 
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> Konstantin Olchanski
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Konstantin Olchanski
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