Subject: Re: [vserver] Problem with RHEL6 on Ubuntu 10.4
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:19:32 +0100

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:09:15PM +0100, Vladislav Geller wrote:
> Hello Everyone,

> I'm trying to install RHEL6 on my Ubuntu 10.4 box.

> I've followed the manual for building a RHEL5 on a host box and it
> looks like its finally got to the point where it's trying to build
> with yum. However i get the following output.

> vladislav@vladislav-desktop /var/lib/vservers/.pkg/redhat 
> % sudo vserver redhat2 build -m yum  \
> --hostname sometthingsomething \
> --interface eth0:10.0.20.30/26 -- -d rhel6

> 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).

well, seems like you are using a version of yum which is insecure
and broken in chroot related operations ....

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

> Execution will continue in 5 seconds...
> Repository 'base' is missing name in configuration, using id

> =============================================================================================================================================
>  Package                                 Arch                        Version
>                                 Repository                 Size
> =============================================================================================================================================
> Installing:
>  glibc                                   i686
>  2.12-1.7.el6                            base                      4.3 M
>  glibc                                   x86_64
>  2.12-1.7.el6                            base                      3.7 M
> Installing for dependencies:
>  basesystem                              noarch
>  10.0-4.el6                              base                      4.6 k
>  bash                                    x86_64
>  4.1.2-3.el6                             base                      907 k
>  filesystem                              x86_64
>  2.4.30-2.1.el6                          base                      1.0 M
>  glibc-common                            x86_64
>  2.12-1.7.el6                            base                       14 M
>  libgcc                                  x86_64
>  4.4.4-13.el6                            base                       92 k
>  ncurses-base                            x86_64
>  5.7-3.20090208.el6                      base                       61 k
>  ncurses-libs                            x86_64
>  5.7-3.20090208.el6                      base                      246 k
>  nss-softokn-freebl                      i686
>  3.12.7-1.1.el6                          base                      109 k
>  nss-softokn-freebl                      x86_64
>  3.12.7-1.1.el6                          base                      115 k
>  setup                                   noarch
>  2.8.14-10.el6                           base                      148 k
>  tzdata                                  noarch
>  2010l-1.el6                             base                      440 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================================================================================
> Install      13 Package(s)
> Upgrade       0 Package(s)

> Total download size: 25 M
> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
> libc.so.6 is needed by nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.7-1.1.el6.i686
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.7-1.1.el6.i686
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.7-1.1.el6.i686
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.7-1.1.el6.i686
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.7-1.1.el6.i686
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.7-1.1.el6.i686
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.7-1.1.el6.i686
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.7) is needed by nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.7-1.1.el6.i686
> libdl.so.2 is needed by nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.7-1.1.el6.i686
> libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.7-1.1.el6.i686
> libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.7-1.1.el6.i686
> libfreebl3.so()(64bit) is needed by glibc-2.12-1.7.el6.x86_64
> libfreebl3.so(NSSRAWHASH_3.12.3)(64bit) is needed by
> glibc-2.12-1.7.el6.x86_64

this looks like yum cannot satisfy the dependancies from the
given repository, which might be related to the fact that
this yum is not prepared to work inside a chroot ...

> (1, [u'Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report'])

> Any help or suggestion are welcome.

I'd try with a patched yum and I'd also make sure that the
repository is consistant ...

> PS this is a test envirment. The actual vserver envirment for 
> production machines is running under debian.

shouldn't matter as long as the tools are working properly

best,
Herbert

> Regards,
> Vladislav