(yum) was not able to locate the glibc package

[BenThomas]

What distro and version are you using?

What's the full output of 'yum info glibc' (It looks like what you submitted is edited) ?

Do you have a support ticket opened with cPanel regarding this issue?

 

[MMarko]

CentOS 3.7

[~]# yum info glibc

Unable to find pid
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: CentOS-3 - Addons
Server: CentOS-3 - Base
Server: CentOS-3 - Extras
Server: CentOS-3 - Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Looking in Available Packages:
Name   : glibc
Arch   : x86_64
Version: 2.3.2
Release: 95.44
Size   : 11.49 MB
Group  : System Environment/Libraries
Repo   : CentOS-3 - Base
Summary: The GNU libc libraries.
Description:
 The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by
multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and
memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is
kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package
contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C
library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a
Linux system will not function.

Name   : glibc
Arch   : i686
Version: 2.3.2
Release: 95.44
Size   : 11.79 MB
Group  : System Environment/Libraries
Repo   : CentOS-3 - Base
Summary: The GNU libc libraries.
Description:
 The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by
multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and
memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is
kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package
contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C
library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a
Linux system will not function.


Looking in Installed Packages:
Name   : glibc
Arch   : i686
Version: 2.3.2
Release: 95.39
Size   : 11.79 MB
Group  : System Environment/Libraries
Repo   : Locally Installed
Summary: The GNU libc libraries.
Description:
 The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by
multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and
memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is
kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package
contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C
library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a
Linux system will not function.

Name   : glibc
Arch   : i686
Version: 2.3.2
Release: 95.39
Size   : 11.79 MB
Group  : System Environment/Libraries
Repo   : Locally Installed
Summary: The GNU libc libraries.
Description:
 The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by
multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and
memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is
kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package
contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C
library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a
Linux system will not function.

No I do not have open ticket.


Do you maybe know why cpanel won't start with kernel 2.4.33?

 

[MMarko]

bumping for this...

 

[BenThomas]

Please open a support ticket with cPanel referencing this thread.

Thanks

 

[Morgana]

I am also interested in the solution because I have the same problem with a few of my servers.

 

[_sr_]

I get

# sh /usr/local/src/buildapache.sea
Creating directory buildapache
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing buildapache......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Checking Update System........Your operating system's rpm update method (yum) was not able to locate the glibc package. This is an indication of an improper setup. You must correct this error before you can proceed.
Please correct the conflicts and try again!
# uname -s
FreeBSD
#
not sure why script detect my system as linux

 

[_sr_]

fix:
rm -rf /var/cpanel/useyum

 

[MMarko]

I've opened ticket but no replies so far...

 

[imkite]

try adding exclude=glibc* etc* etc* to your /etc/yum.conf

I had a similar problem and thats how I fixed it.

 

[FeeL]

solved

rm -rf /var/cpanel/useyum

solved the problem 4 me!

 

[MMarko]

rm -rf /var/cpanel/useyum

solved the problem 4 me!

for me too! thanks

 

[chirpy]

rm -rf /var/cpanel/useyum

solved the problem 4 me!

So long as you're not using a ditribution that needs yum, i.e. CentOS or Fedora Core - otherwise you've just borkne the servers means to update the OS and open yourself up to security vulnerabilities and cPanel won't be able to install/upgrade some applications. You must have an OS update mechanism supported by cPanel of some description, be it yum or up2date, etc.

 

[BenThomas]

I've opened ticket but no replies so far...

What's the ticket number?

 

[grindlay]

Rebuild yum

This worked for me:
http://forums.spry.com/showthread.php?t=387
I had a broken apache installation, couldn't run easyapache.
I ended up back at Apache 1.3 and PHP 4.3, but at least I could rebuild from there.
Grindlay.

 

[MMarko]

What's the ticket number?

Nevermind I manage to fix it.

 

[Man0warr]

How did you fix it? I'm having this problem too, except with up2date instead of yum

edit - fixed it.

Our up2date liscense or something ran out, had to contact our datacenter to fix it.

 

[ealfert]

To whomever found a solution...

PLEASE mention if you use the rm -rf /var/cpanel/useyum technique or another that does not cause the system to not keep up with security patches.

Please be nice and help others instead of just saying "fixed".

 

[FeeL]

"good" solution.

For those, like me, that followed this efective, but poor solution of removing the
/var/cpanel/useyum file, here's how to undo this.

simply do the:

touch /var/cpanel/useyum

This will create the empty reference file. (soh I guess)

Tnx chirpy
Cya people.

 

[leighj]

I found that updating the Yum Repositories fixed (in yum.conf) fixed the problem.... (used fedora url...)

 

[saltyzoo]

I had this problem and resolved it by updating my /etc/yum.conf to a mirror that supported the os version I was running. The mirror I had before stopped serving up the files that were needed.