system update fails

sanitarium · #1 10th January 2010, 10:19 PM

when ever i try to install updates i get shown an error & the updates stop
the error i get says "librpmio.so.0 is needed by package abrt-1.0.3-1.fc12.i686 (updates)
librpm.so.0 is needed by package abrt-1.0.3-1.fc12.i686 (updates)"
any ideas on whats going on & how i can fix this would be appreciated
thanks
sani

Laserman · #2 10th January 2010, 10:29 PM

What method are you using to update? yum? yumex? package manager?

Yum is the best choice and it should automagically provide all required packages.

Code:

su
yum update

sanitarium · #3 10th January 2010, 10:37 PM

i was trying with the package manager
i tried yum update & that gave me the same thing
i'm using a fresh install of fedora & its never been updated
i had been using ubuntu for about 8 months before this if thats any help
sani

dd_wizard · #4 10th January 2010, 10:47 PM

Hmm, if it's a fresh install, try sudo yum install rpm-libs. It's hard to believe you don't have them already, though. The wrong version seems more likely. See my previous post.

dd_wizard

sanitarium · #5 10th January 2010, 10:55 PM

when ever i type anything with the word sudo in it it asks for my password & when i type it in it says "sorry try again" so i type in su to log in as root & i typed the command that you mentioned & i got the same thing & it didnt install anything
sani

dd_wizard · #6 10th January 2010, 11:04 PM

You won't need sudo to check your info on what's installed. Try:

Code:

[gene@Mobile-PC ~]$ yum provides *librpm.so*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit, remove-with-leaves, show-leaves
rpm-libs-4.7.2-1.fc12.x86_64 : Libraries for manipulating RPM packages
Repo        : installed
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/librpm.so.0.0.0
Filename    : /usr/lib64/librpm.so.0
Other       : librpm.so.0()(64bit)

and paste the section about Repo : installed. That will show which version you have.

dd_wizard

denkbar · #7 10th January 2010, 11:05 PM

I've had a similar problem for past three days. When I use the update manager, after checking dependcies, says its needs to install 6 packages. After clicking "install", continues awhile and then says unexpected error occurs. Have posted the "details" portion at end of this post. Based on a posting from a Google search, I then switched to su and entered "yum update". The updates and required dependencies were then installed. When I tried the update manager again, said I was up-to-date. This was my third use of the package manager after doing a "from scratch" install of Fedora 12 a couple of weeks ago. No problems with the first two update sessions.

Anyway, these are the messages at time of failure:

Error Type: <class 'yum.Errors.RepoError'>
Error Value: Error getting repository data for installed, repository not found
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3125, in <module>
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3122, in main
backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 710, in dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 657, in dispatch_command
self.update_packages(only_trusted, package_ids)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1948, in update_packages
signed = self._is_package_repo_signed(pkg)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 1437, in _is_package_repo_signed
repo = self.yumbase.repos.getRepo(pkg.repoid)
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py, line 121, in getRepo
'Error getting repository data for $s, repository not found' $ (repoid)

dd_wizard · #8 10th January 2010, 11:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sanitarium

when ever i type anything with the word sudo in it it asks for my password & when i type it in it says "sorry try again" so i type in su to log in as root & i typed the command that you mentioned & i got the same thing & it didnt install anything
sani

Here's a great resource for new Fedora 12 users. This guide will help you set up sudo, 3rd party repos, media players, codecs, etc.

dd_wizard

dd_wizard · #9 10th January 2010, 10:37 PM

What's the output of "yum info rpm-libs"? You may have the wrong version if you've ever updated from a testing or 3rd party repo. The rpm-libs package provides librpm.so.

dd_wizard

rajasundaram · #10 10th January 2010, 11:05 PM

hi i am getting following error message when i do clean or install or update.
fedora 11.

yum clean
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
Error - /var/cache/yum/base/header.info cannot be found
Please run yum in non-caching mode to correct this header.

yum upgrade
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum...rs/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum...rs/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error >

yum not working after I installed following

wget http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/d...m-2.0.7.tar.gz

/etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1

[base]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/

[updates]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasever/

yum --version
2.0.7

please help me

marko · #11 10th January 2010, 11:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rajasundaram

hi i am getting following error message when i do clean or install or update.
fedora 11.

yum clean
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
Error - /var/cache/yum/base/header.info cannot be found
Please run yum in non-caching mode to correct this header.

yum upgrade
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum...rs/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum...rs/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error >

yum not working after I installed following

wget http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/d...m-2.0.7.tar.gz

/etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1

[base]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/

[updates]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasever/

yum --version
2.0.7

please help me

rajasundaram

I don't understand, the evidence you're showing is that your system is some kind of Red Hat Enterprise installation. If you're installing Fedora from scratch via an optical disk you would not see the "base" repository of name "Red Hat Linux $releasever". There is no such repository in Fedora called "base" but there is such a repo in RedHat and Centos

I think you're getting confused between Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora

Make sure you have a real copy of Fedora from http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora
and install it clean so the disk is wiped of that Red Hat Linux

PS. It's also not a good idea to break into sanitarium's (the original poster) thread with your own problem. Please open a thread of your own in the future

rajasundaram · #12 11th January 2010, 01:34 AM

by mistake i installed wrong version of yum. I don't have permission to post new thread.

CiaW · #13 10th January 2010, 11:06 PM

If this is a new install with new updates, there was just an update to abrt (automatic bug reporting tool) to the version mentioned. I don't know all the ins & outs of yum and rpm like some folks do -- but my suggestion would be to do 'yum update --skip-broken' and then it should update everything that doesn't depend on that librpm dependency.

Actually, if it's a new install you probably want to update yum and rpm first (there have been updates since F12's release), so do 'yum update yum rpm' and then after that's installed do the --skip-broken.

After that, if you do a plain 'yum update' it should work without the --skip-broken, because the first set up updates should (hopefully) take care of the 'broken' dependency issues. I think. It wouldn't hurt to try it anyway.