Subject: Re: [vserver] Can't install Centos guest after 5.3 upgrade
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:32:41 +0200

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:47:00AM -0500, John Alberts wrote:
> Hi.  I have a CentOS host that I recently upgraded from 5.1 to 5.3.
> All of the guests that I currently have on their have been built the
> same way (using the yum build method).  Today, and I get a warning at
> the beginning about yum needing to be patched.  It then tries to build
> the guest but fails.  Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this
> please?

well, my guess would be to patch yum :)

> Here's the output of trying to install a guest:
> 
> [root@vserver vservers]# vserver chidns01lsna build -m yum --context
> 1002 --hostname chidns01lsna.mydomain.com --interface eth0:10.1.1.1/24
> -- -d centos5
> You are using a version of yum which is insecure and broken in chroot
> related operations; either apply the patches shipped in the 'contrib/'
> directory of util-vserver, or ask the author of yum to apply them
> (preferred).

sounds quite descriptive to me ... no?

> In the meantime, 'vyum' will continue with dirty hacks which might not
> work when the vserver is running and local DOS attacks are possible.

best,
Herbert

> Execution will continue in 5 seconds...
> 
> ================================================================================
>  Package            Arch         Version                       Repository  Size
> ================================================================================
> Installing:
>  glibc              x86_64       2.5-34                        base       4.7 M
>  glibc              i686         2.5-34                        base       5.2 M
> Installing for dependencies:
>  basesystem         noarch       8.0-5.1.1.el5.centos          base       2.8 k
>  filesystem         x86_64       2.4.0-2.el5.centos            base       117 k
>  glibc-common       x86_64       2.5-34                        base        16 M
>  libgcc             x86_64       4.1.2-44.el5                  base        96 k
>  setup              noarch       2.5.58-4.el5                  base       124 k
>  tzdata             noarch       2008i-1.el5                   base       756 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> ================================================================================
> Install      8 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> 
> Total download size: 27 M
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 366, in callback
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 400,
> in _transStart
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 343, in ts_all
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/os.py", line 159, in makedirs
> OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/vservers/chidns01lsna/..'
> error: python callback <bound method RPMTransaction.callback of
> <yum.rpmtrans.RPMTransaction instance at 0x110c758>> failed, aborting!
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> John Alberts