[BlueOnyx:05420] Re: That would be me!!! - YUM updates - PHP problems - suPHP - third party

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This was me

Michael Stauber saved the day!

Were there others who had this happen?

--Tim



>Hi all,
>
>On the list we had a few topics during the last week regarding PHP being
>broken after some YUM updates were installed.
>
>Team BlueOnyx didn't release any updates that caused this, nor was there any
>CentOS update that caused this. Nor could we reproduce the problem until we
>got login details to one affected box.
>
>If you were affected, then the problem is that you unfortunately - 
>against our
>advice - tied your server into a third party YUM repository such as RPMforge
>or Dag Wieers. You should have read /etc/yum.repos.d/0_WARNING.txt before you
>stuck a third party repository file into that directory. I'm sorry if this
>sounds harsh, but that's really how it is.
>
>DAG's YUM repository and the RPMforge repository for CentOS5 both contain
>conflicting RPMs that will seriously mess up your BlueOnyx box if you use
>them. This has always been the case, but it got more destructive during the
>last couple of weeks. So tie your servers into their YUM repositories and the
>next "yum update" may be the last one.
>
>Because then about 20 system RPMs will be replaced with supposedly "newer"
>versions if you use third party YUM repositories like these against our
>advice. This includes (depending on the repository) PHP, suPHP, "swatch"
>(active monitor component) and some Perl modules.
>
>The net result will be:
>
>PHP will stop working on all sites
>phpMyAdmin will break
>Active Monitor will no longer work
>Some Perl scripts depending on the presence of certain Perl modules will no
>longer work (affects CMU and SpamAssassin)
>YUM even may no longer work (depends on the repository)
>
>While this damage can be fixed, it requires the removal of most third party
>RPMs and the reinstall of them from the BlueOnyx or CentOS YUM repositories.
>
>First of all you should delete your rpmforge.repo and dag.repo file from
>/etc/yum.repos.d/, though.
>
>Then - as the bare minimum - run this commands:
>
>         rpm -e swatch mod_suphp phpMyAdmin --nodeps
>         yum install swatch mod_suphp phpMyAdmin
>         service admserv restart
>         service cced.init restart
>         service httpd restart
>
>That removes and reinstalls swatch, mod_suphp and phpMyAdmin. But of course:
>If the previous update also broke your "yum", then you might have to grab the
>"good" RPMs through other means like a direct HTTP download with "wget", or
>using "rpm -hUv http://URL/to/RPM".
>
>--
>With best regards
>
>Michael Stauber
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