[Planetlab-users] yum fail on some planetlab nodes

[Hecker W]

Thanks for mentioning rpm --rebuilddb. It can solve the core dump
problem as well (at least to the node I showed below)

Here is a node which will core dump on yum before: planetlab2.cse.nd.edu

-Zhichun

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Andy Bavier <acb at cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
> I believe that you can fix this specific problem by running "sudo rpm
> --rebuilddb" in your slice.
>
> Can you point me toward a node where yum dumps core?  I'll try to
> reproduce this.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Hecker W <heckerme at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some planetlab nodes have problems to run yum either core dump or have
>> the following error.
>>
>> For example for planetlab-1.cs.princeton.edu.
>>
>> [northwestern_list1 at planetlab-1 ~]$ cat /etc/yum.conf
>> [main]
>> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
>> keepcache=0
>> debuglevel=2
>> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
>> exactarch=1
>> obsoletes=1
>> gpgcheck=1
>> plugins=1
>> metadata_expire=1800
>> installonly_limit=2
>>
>> # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
>> # in /etc/yum.repos.d
>>
>> [northwestern_list1 at planetlab-1 ~]$ which nc
>> /usr/bin/which: no nc in
>> (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/northwestern_list1/bin)
>> [northwestern_list1 at planetlab-1 ~]$ sudo yum -yt install nc
>> fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
>> updates                   100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
>> Setting up Install Process
>> Parsing package install arguments
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> --> Running transaction check
>> ---> Package nc.i386 0:1.84-13.fc8 set to be updated
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>
>> Dependencies Resolved
>>
>> =============================================================================
>>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
>> =============================================================================
>> Installing:
>>  nc                      i386       1.84-13.fc8      fedora             57 k
>>
>> Transaction Summary
>> =============================================================================
>> Install      1 Package(s)
>> Update       0 Package(s)
>> Remove       0 Package(s)
>>
>> Total download size: 57 k
>> Downloading Packages:
>> Running rpm_check_debug
>> rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries
>> rpmdb: Unknown locker ID: 9fb
>> error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->close: Invalid argument
>> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Cannot allocate memory (12)
>> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
>>    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 183, in main
>>    base.doTransaction()
>>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 338, in doTransaction
>>    msgs = self._run_rpm_check_debug()
>>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 1108, in _run_rpm_check_debug
>>    self.populateTs(test=1)
>>  File "/vservers/.vref/planetlab-f8-i386/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py",
>> line 222, in populateTs
>> _rpm.error: adding package to transaction failed
>>
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