On 15/11/12 17:33, Duke Nguyen wrote:
> On 11/15/12 11:27 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
>> On 15/11/12 16:56, Duke Nguyen wrote:
>>> On 11/15/12 7:17 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
>>>> On 15/11/12 12:03, Duke Nguyen wrote:
>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to install a Base system into a directory using yum
>>>>> groupinstall, but I got error as below. Any suggestion to solve the
>>>>> errors? Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> $ cat /etc/redhat-release
>>>>> Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon)
>>>>> $ uname -a
>>>>> Linux biowulf.grih.org 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 6
>>>>> 11:21:14 CST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>>> $ sudo yum -y groupinstall "Base" "Server Platform"
>>>>> --installroot=/diskless/root
>>>>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
>>>>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>>>>>    * sl: ftp.scientificlinux.org
>>>>>    * sl-security: ftp.scientificlinux.org
>>>>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/%24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>                                                     ^^^
>>>> This looks wrong.  This should be $releasever and should have been
>>>> expanded to 6.3 before sent to the web server.  Not sure why this
>>>> happens though :/  %24 is ASCII hex code for $.
>>> Thanks David, I also noticed that. But that is only one "strang" error!
>>> I did try to change $releasever to 6.3 in all repo files in
>>> /etc/yum.repo.d/, and did not have above error, but still got similar
>>> error at the end:
>>>
>>>> --> Processing Dependency: kernel >= 2.6.9-11 for package:
>>>> systemtap-runtime-1.7-5.el6.x86_64
>>>> ---> Package xml-common.noarch 0:0.6.3-32.el6 will be installed
>>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>>> Error: Package: libdrm-2.4.25-2.el6.x86_64 (sl)
>>>>             Requires: kernel >= 2.6.29.1-52.fc11
>>>> Error: Package: pcmciautils-015-4.2.el6.x86_64 (sl)
>>>>             Requires: kernel >= 2.6.12-1.1411_FC5
>>>> Error: Package: systemtap-runtime-1.7-5.el6.x86_64 (sl)
>>>>             Requires: kernel >= 2.6.9-11
>>>>   You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>>>>   You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>>> Question is: why the system installed fine with live CD, and now with
>>> the exact same system, installation to different location
>>> (/diskless/root) fails with all kind of dependencies?
>> I'll admit I didn't look too carefully at the rest last time.  Fixing
>> the first steps usually helps solving the next ones ... but there are a
>> couple of things here I wonder about:
>>
>> kernel >= 2.6.29.1-52.fc11
>> kernel >= 2.6.12-1.1411_FC5
>> kernel >= 2.6.9-11
>>
>> That is ancient kernels, none of them have (to my knowledge) ever been
>> EL kernels, and all of them predates EL6 and even EL5.
>>
>> So I'm wondering where it got the information about these kernels.
>> Could you please provide the output of 'rpm -qa kernel' ?
> 
> Here you go:
> 
> $ rpm -qa kernel
> kernel-2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.32-279.5.1.el6.x86_64
> 

Hmm.  Just a silly question ... but have you tried a 'yum clean all' and
then tried the groupinstall?  It's really peculiar that it complains
about these old kernels when you don't have them - and the versions you
have should really be good enough.


kind regards,

David Sommerseth