[CentOS] Problem with xen on Centos-4.4?

James B. Byrne
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:48:38 -0000

I am running a Xen installation on a Centos-4.4 based test box, my desktop
unit, and I am having intermittent problems installing certain pieces of
software.  Some time back I posted to this list regarding my inability to
install Adobe Acrobat on this unit and was advised to essentially
repackage the software and try again.  This is beyond my present means of
knowledge or time to acquire same and so left undone.

Now however I am having remarkably similar problems with two official
Centos-4.4 updates, xorg-x11-xfs and openssh-server.  Can anybody give me
some clues as to what is going on and how I might correct this.  I am sure
that xen is involved in this somehow because I run four other servers with
Centos-4.4 and none of them have displayed this problem.

This is what I am seeing when trying to update via yum:

--->

# yum update openssh-server -y
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
included packages only
Finished
Reducing CentOS-4 Testing to included packages only
Finished
Reducing CentOS-4 - Plus to included packages only
Finished
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package openssh-server.i386 0:3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

============================================================================
Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
============================================================================Updating:
 openssh-server          i386       3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1  update
208 k

Transaction Summary
============================================================================Install
0 Package(s)
Update       1 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 208 k
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
error: %pre(openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit
status 255
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping
openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1

Updated: openssh-server.i386 0:3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1
Complete!



# yum update xorg-x11-xfs
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
dag                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
centos-test               100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
centosplus                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.2 MB    00:27
dag       : ################################################## 5225/5225
Added 57 new packages, deleted 376 old in 7.53 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  32 kB    00:00
extras    : ################################################## 124/124
Added 0 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.15 seconds
Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
included packages only
Finished
Reducing CentOS-4 Testing to included packages only
Finished
Reducing CentOS-4 - Plus to included packages only
Finished
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package xorg-x11-xfs.i386 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

============================================================================
Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
============================================================================Updating:
 xorg-x11-xfs            i386       6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5  update
315 k

Transaction Summary
============================================================================Install
0 Package(s)
Update       1 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 315 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
error: %pre(xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5.i386) scriptlet failed, exit
status 255
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping
xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5

Updated: xorg-x11-xfs.i386 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5
Complete!

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