Re: [Puppet Users] Issue installing on RHEL 6 (2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64)

[Rilindo Foster]

It seems that there is a possible problem with your repo configuration. That is, it is attempting to install a 32 bit version of the binary package, even you are probably running a 64 bit version of RHEL. I suspect you probably will encounter this problem as well with other packages. If you are not using Satellite, you probably need to review you repo configuration and ensure that it is pointing to a ISO, CD or repo with the correct 64 bit binary packages.

In other words, the issue is not specifically puppet, but with RHEL.

On Jun 7, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Kenneth Edgar <ken....@gmail.com> wrote:

After installing the puppet labs repo, I try running 'yum install -y puppet-server and recieve:

Error:  Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root

       cause is something else and multilib version checking is just

       pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.:

       

         1. You have an upgrade for libselinux which is missing some

            dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to

            solve this by installing an older version of libselinux of the

            different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture

            yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package

            requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with

            --exclude libselinux.otherarch ... this should give you an error

            message showing the root cause of the problem.

       

         2. You have multiple architectures of libselinux installed, but

            yum can only see an upgrade for one of those arcitectures.

            If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you

            can remove the one with the missing update and everything

            will work.

       

         3. You have duplicate versions of libselinux installed already.

            You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors.

       

       ...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove

       this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to

       do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing

       much more problems).

       

       Protected multilib versions: libselinux-2.0.94-5.3.el6.i686 != libselinux-2.0.94-5.3.el6_4.1.x86_64

 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Have any of you run into this, and do you have any suggestions?  I'd prefer this method of install if possible.

Thank you,

Ken Edgar

Unix Sysadmin, School Specialty, Inc.

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[Jon Stanley]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Kenneth Edgar <ken....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Protected multilib versions: libselinux-2.0.94-5.3.el6.i686 !=
> libselinux-2.0.94-5.3.el6_4.1.x86_64
> You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
> You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Basically this indicates a problem with your yum configuration or
repos. What it's refusing to do is to install differing versions of
the same package for different architectures (i686 and x86_64)

Particularly, the libselinux package has an issue. What this error
means is that you attempted to install libselinux-2.0.94-5.3.el6.i686
but you have 2.0.94-5.3.el6_4.1.x86_64 already installed (or the other
way around, I forget)

If you're using the install media as a repo on an updated system, that
would explain this. The el6_4 dist tag indicates an async errata (i.e.
released between major RHEL releases) for RHEL6.4, while the .el6 is
what gets shipped on install media (overly simplifying things here,
you could have prior releases async errata, for example el6_3 in a
minor release if there were no other changes) for a minor release.

[Kenneth Edgar]

We do use Satellite and this server is subscribed to 64bit repos.  I found I was using the incorrect puppet labs repo, and installed the following one instead... however I still have the same issue. http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/x86_64/puppetlabs-release-6-7.noarch.rpm

What I found is that since we branch rhel's channels to "freeze" them at a certain level for quarterly updating, these puppetlabs rpm's must have had higher requirements that were not available using our "frozen" channels.  I added the server to the default rhel 6 64 bit channel and updated it, then the packages installed properly.

Thanks,

Ken