Yasha - of all possibilities you always choose the most painful, without fail.

I update SL6.x to SL6.4 using this script. Running the SL installer (anaconda) unnecessary pain.


#!/bin/sh
YES=-y
cat /etc/redhat-release
uname -a
/bin/ls -ltr /boot | grep vmli | tail -1
yum clean all
yum $YES --releasever=6.4 update sl-release
yum clean all
yum $YES update "yum*" "rpm*"
yum $YES update


K.O.



On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 09:38:21AM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
> After updating my IA-32 image SL 6 laptop to SL 6.4 using the update
> pathway from the automatically displayed anaconda GUI using the
> approximately 4Gbyte update/install DVD, rebooting and using the
> system, the red "badge" (Update Applet 2.28.3) with a bang appeared
> on the upper panel.  The claim is presented for 148 updates.  I
> attempted to use the automatically displayed GUI updater that is
> invoked from the red badge icon.  In addition to be exceptionally
> slow because of poor USA DSL bandwidth at my home, the following
> diagnostics appeared:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py", line 2798,
> in install_signature
>     self.yumbase.getKeyForPackage(pkg, askcb = lambda x, y, z: True)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line
> 4765, in getKeyForPackage
>     result, errmsg = self.sigCheckPkg(po)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line
> 2189, in sigCheckPkg
>     sigresult = rpmUtils.miscutils.checkSig(ts, po.localPkg())
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpmUtils/miscutils.py",
> line 67, in checkSig
>     fdno = os.open(package, os.O_RDONLY)
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/yum/i386/6.4/adobe-linux-i386/packages/AdbeRdr9.5.4-1_i486linux_enu.rpm'
> 
> 
> could not add package update for lcms2-2.3-2.el6(i686)epel:
> lcms2-2.3-2.el6.i686
> 
> I cancelled the update and will try again later.
> 
> 1.  Does anyone know what is causing the above (recall that the DVD
> 6.4 upgrade was successful)?
> 
> 2.  As the on-line update is VERY slow for my situation, I attempted
> to let the process run overnight unattended.  Is there anyway to do
> this automated install so that it will simply skip those packages
> that "fail" (as the above) without requiring root password
> authentication intervention, similar to the -y switch on fsck.  I
> realize that such automation is not ideal, but it would be less
> total time to re-install from DVD in the event that the process
> resulted in a no-boot or highly unstable system.
> 
> Thanks for any insight.
> 
> Yasha Karant

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