Re: [webmin-l] error from Yum after update

[Joe C. <jo...@vi...>]

Howdy Ron,

Comments inline below:

BikkerNet|Ron Bikker wrote:
> Hi Joe
> 
> here some answers....
> 
> rpm -q yum
> 
> package yum not installed :-(
> same off course for the verify

That makes no sense!

Figure out where yum is on your system, and find out what package is 
providing it:

rpm -qf `which yum`

This will report whatever package is providing yum (if any).

Obviously, yum shouldn't be uninstalling itself...but that's what your 
symptoms are beginning to look like...though it seems to still be partly 
installed, which is really weird.

The best thing may just be to reinstall yum directly from an 
RPM--download it from the 5.2/updates directory from any CentOS mirror, 
and install it with "rpm -Uvh yum-blahblah.noarch.rpm".  Obviously, 
watch for and deal with dependencies and other errors.

> It's correct that it's added somewhere in 2007 (storagefactory module), in an 
> older version I've running it's absent
> I'm running cent os 5.2 ( that was in that same update)
> 
> no additional repositories installed
> 
> very clean standard install.
> 
> Joe Cooper schreef:
>> Howdy Ron,
>>
>> Our script doesn't install Python or yum, and we don't provide either 
>> package (we do provide a yum version on CentOS 3, but not many folks are 
>> running such an old CentOS at this point--though you haven't told us 
>> what version you're running--looks like maybe 4, which we don't provide 
>> yum for, as it's the default package management tool).  Anyway, those 
>> packages are a core part of the OS.  ;-)
>>
>> So, let's try to figure out what's gone wrong with your yum.  What 
>> version do you have?
>>
>> rpm -q yum
>>
>> And what does a verify report?
>>
>> rpm -V yum
>>
>> I'm not expert, but it looks like the storagefactory module is part of 
>> yum, and has relatively recently been added (late 2007).  So, it seems 
>> likely that an update of yum is the source of trouble...I'm not sure why 
>> it wouldn't be able to find it, however, and I can't imagine that older 
>> versions that don't include it would refer to it.  What's a bit odd is 
>> that yum shouldn't be that new in any CentOS version.  My Fedora system 
>> doesn't even have a version of yum that includes the storagefactory module.
>>
>> So, I'm thinking you've got a new version of yum from somewhere.
>>
>> What CentOS version are you running?  Do you have any alternative yum 
>> repositories configured?  I'm guessing there is a broken yum package 
>> somewhere.
>>
>> BikkerNet | Ron Bikker wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi joe,
>>>
>>> I Know it's not directly related to webmin/virtualmin
>>>
>>> No I did not run a custom python as far as I know, it's a very standard 
>>> install done by your script 8 months ago,
>>>
>>> Just did an update from within webmin no additional packages installed.
>>>
>>> I know at least my yum is broken, but every install I try to do with an 
>>> RPM is giving dependancy issues.