On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:

> On 31/10/12 09:14, Mark Stodola wrote:
>> On 10/31/2012 07:59 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>>> I have an NFS server running SL-6?. I don't know how to determine
>>> the version? I installed it and have been using it without a hitch.
>>>
>>> This morning I ran yum update for the first time in months and after
>>> downloading 90+ rpms it produced a long list of errors due to
>>> conflicts, not what I expected?
>>>
>>> I don't usually have a keyboard and monitor attached to it, access
>>> from a Fedora-17 box when necessary and that's how I did the yum
>>> update this morning, via ssh. Due to ISP usage limits I need to do
>>> the update in the wee hours, before 05:00.
>>>
>>> What have I done wrong?
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>
>> You'll need to provide more information.  What repositories are
>> enabled?  Do you have a sample of which packages are conflicting?
>>
>> -Mark
>>
>
> "What repositories are enabled?" I don't think I added any since
> installing SL.

The epel , rpmforge , rpmforge-extras repos are not install by default 
when installing Scientific Linux.  Someone "enabled" them.  Normally it is 
not a good idea to have "rpmforge-extras" enabled when you are doing 
updates as there can be "conflicts" with the base sl repos.

Either disable "rpmforge-extras" repo by editing the "enabled" line in 
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo for "rpmforge-extras" and changing it to a 
0 which is the default.

-Connie Sieh

>
>
> "which packages are conflicting?" All 07 apparently.
>
> Perhaps you can see something wrong in the following. I do this
> routinely with Fedora and it just works, but not via ssh?
>
>    [root@192 bobg]# yum update
>    Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
>    Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>      * epel: dl.fedoraproject.org
>      * rpmforge: ftp.lug.ro
>      * rpmforge-extras: ftp.lug.ro
>      * sl: ftp2.scientificlinux.org
>      * sl-security: ftp2.scientificlinux.org
>    Setting up Update Process
>    Resolving Dependencies
>    --> Running transaction check
>
>
>    ---------------------  snip  -------------------
>
>    (96/97):
>    xulrunner-10.0.10-1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm                         |  12
>    MB     00:06
>    (97/97):
>    yum-autoupdate-2-5.0.noarch.rpm                              |  26
>    kB     00:00
>    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    Total                                                        837
>    kB/s | 214 MB     04:21
>    Running rpm_check_debug
>    Running Transaction Test
>
>
>    Transaction Check Error:
>       file /sbin/extlinux from install of
>    syslinux-4.05-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
>    syslinux-extlinux-4.02-4.el6.x86_64
>       file /boot/extlinux/cat.c32 from install of
>    syslinux-4.05-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
>    syslinux-extlinux-4.02-4.el6.x86_64
>
>    -----------------  snip  -----------------
>
>       file /boot/extlinux/vpdtest.c32 from install of
>    syslinux-4.05-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
>    syslinux-extlinux-4.02-4.el6.x86_64
>       file /boot/extlinux/whichsys.c32 from install of
>    syslinux-4.05-1.el6.rfx.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
>    syslinux-extlinux-4.02-4.el6.x86_64
>
>    Error Summary
>    -------------
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
>