Install error on Fedora Core 4

Virtualmin
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Following is my failed install session on Fedora Core 4.

Suggestions?

FrankM

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[[root@dw01 tmp]]# sh install.sh

  • Welcome to the Virtualmin Professional installer, version EA-1 *

WARNING: This is an Early Adopter release. It may not be wholly
compatible with future releases of the installer. We don’t expect
major problems, but be prepared for some occasional discomfort on
upgrades for a few weeks. Be sure to let us know when problems arise
by creating issues in the bugtracker at Virtualmin.com.

Checking for fully qualified hostname…
Hostname OK: fully qualified as dw01.dragonwall.net
Checking for curl or wget…found /usr/bin/curl -O
Checking for perl…found /usr/bin/perl
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 4448 100 4448 0 0 11066 0 --:–:-- --:–:-- --:–:-- 52329
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2830 100 2830 0 0 7583 0 --:–:-- --:–:-- --:–:-- 2763k

Operating system name: Fedora Core Linux
Operating system version: Fedora 4

Downloading virtualmin-release package for Fedora Core Linux Fedora 4…
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 10600 100 10600 0 0 1939 0 0:00:05 0:00:05 --:–:-- 107k
Preparing… ########################################### [[100%]]
package virtualmin-release-1.0-1.fedora is already installed

Installing Virtualmin and all related packages now using the command:
yum -y install virtualmin-base
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
virtualmin-universal 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: virtualmin
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from virtualmin: [[Errno 256]] No more mirrors to try.
Installation failed: 1
Removing virtualmin-release package, so that installation can be re-attempted
after any problems reported are resolved.

2

This is a weird one. Looks like the software server couldn’t be reached, but only for one of the repositories. Maybe the repodata was being regenerated and was in an inconsistent state at the time it hit. Try it again and see if the same error results?

3

[[root@dw01 virtualmin]]# sh install.sh

  • Welcome to the Virtualmin Professional installer, version EA-1 *

WARNING: This is an Early Adopter release. It may not be wholly
compatible with future releases of the installer. We don’t expect
major problems, but be prepared for some occasional discomfort on
upgrades for a few weeks. Be sure to let us know when problems arise
by creating issues in the bugtracker at Virtualmin.com.

Checking for fully qualified hostname…
Hostname OK: fully qualified as dw01.dragonwall.net
Checking for curl or wget…found /usr/bin/curl -O
Checking for perl…found /usr/bin/perl
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 4448 100 4448 0 0 5291 0 --:–:-- --:–:-- --:–:-- 51720
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2830 100 2830 0 0 4663 0 --:–:-- --:–:-- --:–:-- 2763k

Operating system name: Fedora Core Linux
Operating system version: Fedora 4

Downloading virtualmin-release package for Fedora Core Linux Fedora 4…
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 10600 100 10600 0 0 22833 0 --:–:-- --:–:-- --:–:-- 92173
Preparing… ########################################### [[100%]]
package virtualmin-release-1.0-1.fedora is already installed

Installing Virtualmin and all related packages now using the command:
yum -y install virtualmin-base
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
virtualmin-universal 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
dag 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: virtualmin
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from virtualmin: [[Errno 256]] No more mirrors to try.
Installation failed: 1
Removing virtualmin-release package, so that installation can be re-attempted
after any problems reported are resolved.
[[root@dw01 virtualmin]]#

4

Red Hat seems to be having a problem with yum. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132171

Perhaps this is related?

Frank

5

Hey Frank,

I doubt that bug has any bearing on this–FC4 has a much newer yum version than the one in that bug report.

It is almost certainly either a local network problem, or was due to a temporary problem on the server.

Try the following before running the install script again:

yum clean all

Beyond that, I’m rather stumped…as it simply can’t be a network problem, because the virtualmin-universal repository is working fine, and they are on the same server.

Is there any chance the /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualmin.repo file has been modified?

It also looks like the currently released install script does not actually remove virtualmin-release when it says it is. So, try manually removing it before running again (this will insure the repo definition is correct):

rpm -e virtualmin-release

If none of that helps, try disabling your extra repositories (because they will lead to a lot of excess debugging output) and then running the following:

yum -d 9 list

And post that here.

6

Just a heads up that there have been several bugs discovered in the most recent virtualmin-base package, that has led to me rolling out a new virtualmin-base and a new install.sh script.

Please grab the latest install.sh from http://www.virtualmin.com/serial before attempting to install again.

Sorry for the inconvenience. (Note that these bugs were not relevant to the problem that you’re seeing. But we’ll get your problem worked out as well, if it persists, as soon as I can figure out just what it is that is going wrong.)

7

I intend to do a full reinstall of Fedora Core 4. I will get to this next week. I will try reinstalling Virtualmin after the reinstall.

8

I did a re-install of Fedora Core 4 AMD-64 and again tried tried installing the new install.sh. I got "Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for respository: virtualmin"

Frank

9

[[root@dw01 Desktop]]# sh install.sh

  • Welcome to the Virtualmin Professional installer, version EA2a *

WARNING: This is an Early Adopter release. It may not be wholly
compatible with future releases of the installer. We don’t expect
major problems, but be prepared for some occasional discomfort on
upgrades for a few weeks. Be sure to let us know when problems arise
by creating issues in the bugtracker at Virtualmin.com.

Checking for fully qualified hostname…
Hostname OK: fully qualified as dw01.dragonwall.net
Checking for curl or wget…found /usr/bin/curl -O
Checking for perl…found /usr/bin/perl
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 4448 100 4448 0 0 3219 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:–:-- 30054
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 2830 100 2830 0 0 2648 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:–:-- 197k

Operating system name: Fedora Core Linux
Operating system version: Fedora 4

Downloading virtualmin-release package for Fedora Core Linux Fedora 4…
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 10600 100 10600 0 0 12043 0 --:–:-- --:–:-- --:–:-- 59550
Preparing… ########################################### [[100%]]
package virtualmin-release-1.0-1.fedora is already installed
Installing dependencies using command: /usr/bin/yum -y install postfix bind spamassassin procmail perl perl-DBD-Pg perl-DBD-MySQL quota iptables openssl python mailman subversion ruby rdoc ri mysql mysql-server postgresql postgresql-server rh-postgresql rh-postgresql-server logrotate webalizer php mod_perl mod_python cyrus-sasl dovecot spamassassin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
virtualmin-universal 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
http://software.virtualmin.com/fedora/4/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [[Errno 4]] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:56:10 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
Content-Length: 323
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: virtualmin
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from virtualmin: [[Errno 256]] No more mirrors to try.
Something went wrong during installation: 1
[[root@dw01 Desktop]]#

10

Ouch. You’re on x86_64. (Did I not notice that before, or was it a 32 bit installation before? I think the former…I’m a bit sluggish these days.)

We haven’t got builds for x86_64 yet. This would wholly explain why only one repository is failing–the “universal” repository is just that, and works across all platforms.

I’ll accelerate my plans on building for x86_64 on Fedora and RHEL. I hadn’t planned to do a 64 bit release until EA3, but I don’t think I ever made that adequately clear anywhere on the site or during the ordering process, so I’ll bring it to the front burner and get it out by this weekend.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and not noticing this was the problem earlier.