On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, David WEISSENBACH wrote:
> Good evening ROLLOUTers
>
> I've been trying -and trying- to upgrade IPSL-IPGP-LCG2 to LCG-2_3_0,
> on RH7.3 with LCFG.
>
> Seems to be successfull on the UI, and maybe on SE where no packages _at all_
> were replaced nor added so I really won't be surprised if it finally failed
> (I had no time yet to check the rpm lists for the SE for confirmation).
At least the vdt_globus rpms should have been upgraded to 1.2.0...
Did you reboot the SE?
> But on the CE and the WN it went really bad :
>
> First, I was warned that
>
> [WARNING] updaterpms: Couldn't find RPM header file for lcg-bdii-3.1.13-1
> [WARNING] updaterpms: Couldn't find RPM header file for
> lcg-info-dynamic-pbs-1.0.3-1
>
> that surprised me a bit because the files .lcg-bdii-3.1.13-1.noarch.rpm and
> .lcg-info-dynamic-pbs-1.0.3-1 are present in the same dir as the rpms
> themselves.
> When I run
> genhdfile-static-402 lcg-bdii-3.1.13-1.noarch.rpm
> genhdfile-static-402 lcg-info-dynamic-pbs-1.0.3-1.noarch.rpm
> I get no complains, but that doesn't change anything.
Login on the CE and check this:
ls -la /export/local/linux/7.3/RPMS/external/.lcg-bdii-3.1.13-1.noarch.rpm
You could have some stale NFS mount problem.
Have you tried rebooting the machines?
> Anyway, I would feel very very happy if that was the only problem I
> encountered.
>
> The fact is that the installation leaves the computing nodes without a batch
> system! I requested for PBS in the profiles, but the upgrade just *removes*
> the packages listed in pbs-(server|client)-rpm.h, despite many efforts.
>
> So finally, my idea was to install them again (I used the old LCG-2_2_0
> profiles, not to miss something behind, thus the title of this post), set the
> updaterpms.localpkgs flag to yes (with updaterpms.localpkgs set to cdb), and
> then try the 2_3 upgrade again.
>
> So this didn't fail that much, expect that without (at least ?)
> lcg-info-dynamic-pbs, the advertising of the queues by the ldap tool is very
> close to swiss cheese : full of holes.
>
> So maybe I still could force the install of this two packages by typing the
> appropriate rpm commands (hopefully I just take care of 1 CE and 4 WNs),
> but finally, I took the wise (?) decision to seek for further advice before
> actually doing it, as I also felt this situation should be reported somehow.
>
> Thank you very much for having read this message up to here.
>
> Yours, kindly,
>
> David Weissenbach.
>
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