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Beshoy Girgis
Beshoy Girgis

Reputation: 467

EC2 yum update fails

I have an instance on EC2 running Amazon's AMI. Beginning this week, I'm unable to complete a yum update due to an issue with dependency resolution:

$  yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * amzn-main: packages.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
 * amzn-updates: packages.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
 * epel: mirror.symnds.com
amzn-main/latest                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 2.1 kB     00:00
amzn-updates/latest                                                                                                                                                                                                  | 2.3 kB     00:00
652 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package device-mapper.x86_64 0:1.02.77-9.19.amzn1 will be updated
---> Package device-mapper.x86_64 0:1.02.77-9.20.amzn1 will be an update
---> Package device-mapper-event.x86_64 0:1.02.77-9.19.amzn1 will be updated
---> Package device-mapper-event.x86_64 0:1.02.77-9.20.amzn1 will be an update
---> Package device-mapper-event-libs.i686 0:1.02.77-9.19.amzn1 will be updated
---> Package device-mapper-event-libs.x86_64 0:1.02.77-9.19.amzn1 will be updated
---> Package device-mapper-event-libs.i686 0:1.02.77-9.20.amzn1 will be an update
---> Package device-mapper-event-libs.x86_64 0:1.02.77-9.20.amzn1 will be an update
---> Package device-mapper-libs.i686 0:1.02.77-9.19.amzn1 will be updated
---> Package device-mapper-libs.x86_64 0:1.02.77-9.19.amzn1 will be updated
---> Package device-mapper-libs.i686 0:1.02.77-9.20.amzn1 will be an update
---> Package device-mapper-libs.x86_64 0:1.02.77-9.20.amzn1 will be an update
---> Package libblkid.i686 0:2.17.2-13.16.amzn1 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libblkid = 2.17.2-13.16.amzn1 for package: util-linux-ng-2.17.2-13.16.amzn1.i686
---> Package libblkid.x86_64 0:2.17.2-13.16.amzn1 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libblkid = 2.17.2-13.16.amzn1 for package: util-linux-ng-2.17.2-13.16.amzn1.i686
---> Package libblkid.i686 0:2.17.2-13.17.amzn1 will be an update
---> Package libblkid.x86_64 0:2.17.2-13.17.amzn1 will be an update
---> Package libuuid.i686 0:2.17.2-13.16.amzn1 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libuuid = 2.17.2-13.16.amzn1 for package: util-linux-ng-2.17.2-13.16.amzn1.i686
---> Package libuuid.x86_64 0:2.17.2-13.16.amzn1 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libuuid = 2.17.2-13.16.amzn1 for package: util-linux-ng-2.17.2-13.16.amzn1.i686
---> Package libuuid.i686 0:2.17.2-13.17.amzn1 will be an update
---> Package libuuid.x86_64 0:2.17.2-13.17.amzn1 will be an update
---> Package lvm2.x86_64 0:2.02.98-9.19.amzn1 will be updated
---> Package lvm2.x86_64 0:2.02.98-9.20.amzn1 will be an update
---> Package lvm2-libs.x86_64 0:2.02.98-9.19.amzn1 will be updated
---> Package lvm2-libs.x86_64 0:2.02.98-9.20.amzn1 will be an update
---> Package util-linux-ng.x86_64 0:2.17.2-13.16.amzn1 will be updated
---> Package util-linux-ng.x86_64 0:2.17.2-13.17.amzn1 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: util-linux-ng-2.17.2-13.16.amzn1.i686 (@amzn-main)
           Requires: libblkid = 2.17.2-13.16.amzn1
           Removing: libblkid-2.17.2-13.16.amzn1.i686 (@amzn-main)
               libblkid = 2.17.2-13.16.amzn1
           Updated By: libblkid-2.17.2-13.17.amzn1.i686 (amzn-updates)
               libblkid = 2.17.2-13.17.amzn1
Error: Package: util-linux-ng-2.17.2-13.16.amzn1.i686 (@amzn-main)
           Requires: libuuid = 2.17.2-13.16.amzn1
           Removing: libuuid-2.17.2-13.16.amzn1.i686 (@amzn-main)
               libuuid = 2.17.2-13.16.amzn1
           Updated By: libuuid-2.17.2-13.17.amzn1.i686 (amzn-updates)
               libuuid = 2.17.2-13.17.amzn1
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

I really don't think removing util-linux-ng to resolve the dependency would be a good solution as I'm seeing quite a few critical tools in that package. Does anyone have a good solution? Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8124

Answers (2)

user3010083
user3010083

Reputation: 

yum clean all

and

yum update

fixed the issue for me.

yum clean all will remove everything that yum caches, ensure you are not relying on any cached data before running the command.

Upvotes: 3

vangelion
vangelion

Reputation: 255

Looks like you need to wait for Amazon to update to util-linux-ng-2.17.2-13.17.amzn1.i686

In the meantime, you can follow the suggestion:

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

By running:

yum update --skip-broken

To update everything else.

Upvotes: 0

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