Thats useful info and all your help, we are trying to investigate what does it.
Thanks & Regards
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On Feb 21, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> No scientific linux packages populate yum.conf with any centos related information.
>
> Pat
>
> On 02/21/2013 11:34 AM, Parag Mhashilkar wrote:
>> Oh this is strange and seems like I found the problem with default yum.
>>
>> Looking at the redhat docs, yum obtains value of $releasever from the
>> distroverpkg variable in yum.conf. In case of my BM it is pointing to
>> centos-release. In case of a working slf6.3 this variable does not exit.
>>
>> So I commented this line and now everything works. I am guessing yum is
>> falling back to redhat-release or system-release if this info is not in
>> yum.conf
>>
>> Now the question is which package/version fixes this yum.conf?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 11:27 -0600, Parag Mhashilkar wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 11:20 -0600, Pat Riehecky wrote:
>>>> Those look like they should....
>>>>
>>>> What do
>>>>
>>>> rpm -q sl-release
>>> sl-release-6.3-1.x86_64
>>>
>>>> yum provides redhat-release
>>>>
>>> This command fails with the same PYCURL ERROR 22
>>>
>>> But the file /etc/redhat-release exists and contains
>>> Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon)
>>>
>>> I suspect most dont see the error since they install many other
>>> packages, one of which does the required magic. One we are creating is a
>>> bare min for cloud work.
>>>
>>>> report?
>>>>
>>>> Pat
>>>>
>>>> On 02/21/2013 11:17 AM, Parag Mhashilkar wrote:
>>>>> Hi Pat,
>>>>>
>>>>> Repo files are attached. I did an rpm install of
>>>>> yum-conf-sl6x-1-2.noarch.rpm separately after the VM creation hoping
>>>>> that it would fix the problem, but no luck.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just a minor correction to my previous email, its not pycurl but yum
>>>>> that is not able to expand the $releasever
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 11:08 -0600, Pat Riehecky wrote:
>>>>>> Can I see your yum repo files (/etc/yum.repos.d/sl*.repo)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pat
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 02/21/2013 11:05 AM, Parag Mhashilkar wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I created a minimal SL6 image with yum groups base+core and
>>>>>>> openssh-server using
>>>>>>> http://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/scientific/6x/x86_64/os/. Image is created
>>>>>>> fine but when I boot up and try to run yum update it fails with errors
>>>>>>> (see below). I also tried enabling and disabling mirrors doing yum clean
>>>>>>> all every time before I run the update command.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I also noticed there is a /var/cache/yum/x86_64/$releasever dir.
>>>>>>> Removing this $releasever dir does not help. It is recreated. For a
>>>>>>> working system $releasever in the yum cache is actually expanded to the
>>>>>>> respective versions but not in this case.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a package pycurl depends on that is not pulled by default
>>>>>>> making it unable to expand the $releasever correctly?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---------
>>>>>>> yum clean all ; yum update --skip-broken 1 > yum.out 2>&1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
>>>>>>> Determining fastest mirrors
>>>>>>> * sl: ftp2.scientificlinux.org
>>>>>>> * sl-security: ftp2.scientificlinux.org
>>>>>>> * sl6x: ftp2.scientificlinux.org
>>>>>>> * sl6x-security: ftp2.scientificlinux.org
>>>>>>> http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/%
>>>>>>> 24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 -
>>>>>>> "The requested URL returned error: 404"
>>>>>>> Trying other mirror.
>>>>>>> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/%
>>>>>>> 24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 -
>>>>>>> "The requested URL returned error: 404"
>>>>>>> Trying other mirror.
>>>>>>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/%
>>>>>>> 24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 -
>>>>>>> "The requested URL returned error: 404"
>>>>>>> Trying other mirror.
>>>>>>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/%
>>>>>>> 24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 9 -
>>>>>>> "Server denied you to change to the given directory"
>>>>>>> Trying other mirror.
>>>>>>> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
>>>>>>> sl. Please verify its path and try again
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>
>
>
> --
> Pat Riehecky
> Scientific Linux Developer
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