Cron /scripts/upcp - Unable to locate working expect!

[Bdzzld]

Hello,

The first lines in the Cron /scripts/upcp contain the following :

Unable to locate working expect! Please check your installation.
Found hostname to be server.domain.xxx, which resolves to 1.2.3.4
Hostname Virtual Host is already setup
PHP version file is up to date
Ftp Quota Check v1.0
Cpanel updates are coming from layer2.cpanel.net
Locking password for user daemon.
passwd: Success
Send Disk Warning
Buggy hardware detected!!
Skipping Disk Integrity Check
The following controllers have problems with S.M.A.R.T:
3ware PERCRAID 3w-xxx Promise and FastTrack
Ftp Setup Script Version 6.0
...

1) To what is the first line (Unable to locate working expect! Please check your installation.) refering? That line started to appear after the hostname needed to be changed, as far as I know...

2) Why is cPanel trying to check the 3Ware Escalade 8006-2 S-ATA RAID-1 controller for errors or saying it's buggy because it does not have S.M.A.R.T technology? S-ATA controllers do not have S.M.A.R.T technology, only E-IDE.

Thanks.

[AndyReed]

Buggy hardware detected!!
Skipping Disk Integrity Check
The following controllers have problems with S.M.A.R.T:
3ware PERCRAID 3w-xxx Promise and FastTrack

Do the following:

touch /var/cpanel/disablesmartcheck

This will skip the hardware check and won't cause the server to crash.

If that doesn't work, removed this line from /scripts/upcp script:
system("/scripts/smartcheck");

Then, run the command /scripts/upcp --force

[chirpy]

AS for expect itself, you need to install that using your OS update tool, you don't mention wnat your OS is, but you would usually use (for Linux) either:

up2date -ui expect

or

yum install expect

[Bdzzld]

Hi,

That indeed solved the problems Thanks...

Every day the e-mails also contains the following :

...
Transaction Check Error:   file /usr/share/man/man5/fonts-conf.5.gz from install of fontconfig-2.2.3-7 conflicts with file from package fontconfig-2.2.3-7
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package gd-progs.x86_64 0:2.0.28-4 set to be updated
---> Package gd.x86_64 0:2.0.28-4 set to be updated
---> Package gd-devel.x86_64 0:2.0.28-4 set to be updated
---> Package bind-devel.x86_64 20:9.2.4-2 set to be updated
---> Package sharutils.x86_64 0:4.2.1-22.2 set to be updated
---> Package gd.i386 0:2.0.28-4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libX11.so.6 for package: gd
--> Processing Dependency: libjpeg.so.62 for package: gd
--> Processing Dependency: libXpm.so.4 for package: gd
--> Processing Dependency: libpng12.so.0 for package: gd
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package xorg-x11-libs.i386 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.20 set to be updated
---> Package libjpeg.i386 0:6b-33 set to be updated
---> Package libpng.i386 2:1.2.7-1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libexpat.so.0 for package: xorg-x11-libs
--> Processing Dependency: libGL.so.1 for package: xorg-x11-libs
--> Processing Dependency: libfontconfig.so.1 for package: xorg-x11-libs
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package expat.i386 0:1.95.7-4 set to be updated
---> Package xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386 0:6.8.2-1.EL.13.20 set to be updated
---> Package fontconfig.i386 0:2.2.3-7 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check


Dependencies Resolved
...

Every day it tries to correct it, but that's unsuccessfull...

FYI : Server is running CentOS 4.2 x86_64.

Any ideas how to resolve this issue?
Thanks.

[chirpy]

Try:

rpm -e --justdb fontconfig fontconfig-devel --nodeps
yum install fontconfig fontconfig-devel