On 07/10/2018 02:58 PM, Mark Stodola wrote:
> On 07/10/2018 02:39 PM, Jon Pruente wrote:
>> I've got a server running SL 7.3 and while it has installed many
>> updates including recent ones under the 7.5 update, it is not
>> installing all updates to a full SL 7.5 system. I've tried 'yum clean
>> all' and 'rm -rf /var/cache/yum' and they didn't help. The only clue
>> is that 'yum check' returned an error, but I don't know if it is
>> enough to cause yum to just ignore updating seemingly unrelated
>> packages while allowing others. I would assume that a conflict with a
>> kmod would block a kernel update but it does not. What other steps can
>> I do to try to troubleshoot or fix this?
>>
>> [root@Server log]# yum check
>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>> kmod-redhat-mpt3sas-14.101.00.00-1.el7_3.x86_64 has installed
>> conflicts mpt3sas-kmod:
>> kmod-redhat-mpt3sas-14.101.00.00-1.el7_3.x86_64
>> Error: check all
>>
>> It appears to be stuck at SL 7.3 according to:
>>
>> [root@Server log]# yum info sl-release
>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>>   * epel: mirrors.syringanetworks.net
>>   * repos: ftp.scientificlinux.org
>>   * sl: ftp.scientificlinux.org
>>   * sl-extras: ftp.scientificlinux.org
>>   * sl-fastbugs: ftp.scientificlinux.org
>>   * sl-security: ftp.scientificlinux.org
>> Installed Packages
>> Name        : sl-release
>> Arch        : x86_64
>> Version     : 7.3
>> Release     : 4.sl7
>> Size        : 69 k
>> Repo        : installed
>>  From repo   : sl
>> Summary     : Scientific Linux release file
>> License     : GPLv2
>> Description : Scientific Linux release files
>>
>> However, it has updated to and is running the kernel for the 7.5 release:
>>
>> [root@Server log]# uname -a
>> Linux Server.Company.com 3.10.0-862.6.3.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 26
>> 12:13:22 CDT 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> [root@Server log]# rpm -qa kernel
>> kernel-3.10.0-862.6.3.el7.x86_64
>> kernel-3.10.0-514.21.1.el7.x86_64
>> kernel-3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
> 
> Do you have yum-conf-sl7x installed?
> What are the contents of:
> /etc/yum/vars/releasever
> /etc/yum/vars/slreleasever
> 
> The newer kernels are generally available at each release version via 
> the sl-security repo, so it is not a good measure.

I forgot to provide a fix/solution for you...

If you do not have yum-conf-sl7x install it.
If it is installed, do a 'yum reinstall yum-conf-sl7x'.
Alternately, change /etc/yum/vars/slreleasever to contain 7x
The output of 'yum repolist all' should list the sl repositories as 7x 
instead of 7.3.

This might happen because the slreleasever file is provided by both 
yum-conf-sl7x and sl-release.  There is an rpm trigger to (hopefully) 
handle this gracefully.  See /var/libexec/sl-release/set-release.sh.