Florent Clairambault » CentOS

Yum Transaction Check Error on x64 CentOS

Florent Clairambault — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:43:48 +0000

If you encounter a “Transaction Check Error” on yum on a x64 system during an install, an update or an upgrade, you will find out that most of the time, you can’t remove the problematic packages. But it’s very likely that the problem comes from a i386 version of a package. The easiest way to proceed is just to remove the i386 version of each software or library as it appears on the Transaction Check Error.

I had a problem with postgresql-libs (i386) which was required by subversion (i386). I removed the postgresql-libs (and I had to remove subversion), but both of them were also in a x86_64 version, so it didn’t change anything. They were just garbage packages.

PHP 5.2 on CentOS

Florent Clairambault — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:01:53 +0000

PHP 5.2 brings lots of little useful features and CentOS 5.3 comes with PHP 5.1. So most of my PHP apps failed. The easiest way to solve this is to :

Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Testing.repo and put this :

[c5-testing]
name=CentOS-5 Testing
baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing

Launch :
1
yum update php

Source :
http://www.freshblurbs.com/install-php-5-2-centos-5-2-using-yum

get start-stop-daemon on any Linux distribution

Florent Clairambault — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:37:40 +0000

I switched from Debian to CentOS because I had the choice between an old 32 bits Debian 4.0 or a brand new 64 bits CentOS 5.3. And I have some scripts that use the great “start-stop-daemon” tool, which isn’t available on CentOS.

The easiest way to solve this problem is to get dpkg from Debian and then try to compile it. It’s likely that it will fail because libselinux (and it’s subsidiary library libsepol) won’t be registered in the pkgconfig dir. But we don’t really care as we only need start-stop-daemon, not dpkg.

# wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.25.tar.gz
# tar -xf dpkg_1.14.25.tar.gz
# cd dpkg-1.14.25/
# ./configure >/dev/null
configure: WARNING: x86_64 not found in cputable
configure: WARNING: linux-gnu not found in ostable
Package libselinux was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libselinux.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libselinux' found
configure: WARNING: no curses library found
# make >/dev/null
processarc.o: In function `process_archive':
/root/dpkg-1.14.25/src/processarc.c:166: warning: the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
archives.o: In function `tarobject':
/root/dpkg-1.14.25/src/archives.c:634: undefined reference to `matchpathcon'
/root/dpkg-1.14.25/src/archives.c:640: undefined reference to `setfscreatecon'
/root/dpkg-1.14.25/src/archives.c:802: undefined reference to `setfscreatecon'
/root/dpkg-1.14.25/src/archives.c:804: undefined reference to `freecon'
/root/dpkg-1.14.25/src/archives.c:826: undefined reference to `setfscreatecon'
/root/dpkg-1.14.25/src/archives.c:618: undefined reference to `is_selinux_enabled'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [dpkg] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
# cd utils
# make install
gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -idirafter ../libcompat -I../lib    -g -O2 -MT start-stop-daemon.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/start-stop-daemon.Tpo -c -o start-stop-daemon.o start-stop-daemon.c
mv -f .deps/start-stop-daemon.Tpo .deps/start-stop-daemon.Po
gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2  -Wl,-O1 -o start-stop-daemon start-stop-daemon.o ../libcompat/libcompat.a
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/dpkg-1.14.25/utils'
test -z "/usr/local/sbin" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/sbin"
  /usr/bin/install -c 'start-stop-daemon' '/usr/local/sbin/start-stop-daemon'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dpkg-1.14.25/utils'

And you should have it !

Server moved

Florent Clairambault — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:35:04 +0000

I’ve switched from my two three years old dedicated servers to one brand new virtual server. Reasons are : These servers costed me too much and they were becoming old (risk of failure increases). It wasn’t worth it.

I spent last night doing that because I didn’t want to interrupt anybody using these servers.

My two servers were running some Debian and I’m now switching to a CentOS virtual server. I was a little bit worried at first that CentOS would have a crappy package management system, but its yum is in fact working the same way as Debian’s apt-get and OpenSuse’s zypper. The oool thing is that these three package management systems roughly work the same way : install , you don’t have to learn a new “ultimate” way to upgrade your software (like on FreeBSD). By the way, the faster package management system is yum, and the slowest one is zypper.

The biggest problem I had so far was to move all the databases. Previously, I was always using some Debian hosts, I was using exactly the same version of MySQL, so I just had to copy the MySQL datadir and logs files. Here, I had to export/import everything.

CentOS has an antique 1.2.4 version of Mono (when the current version is 2.4). I couldn’t manage to compile from the tarball but compiling from the SVN worked fine.

]# /usr/local/bin/mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 2.5 (/trunk/mono r140917 Sat Aug 29 05:29:19 CEST 2009)
Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
        TLS:           __thread
        GC:            Included Boehm (with typed GC and Parallel Mark)
        SIGSEGV:       altstack
        Notifications: epoll
        Architecture:  amd64
        Disabled:      none