[BlueOnyx:24812] Re: Aventurine backup and yum problems

[Richard Owen]

Hi Michael 

> Last but not least I have one Node that is up and running (for a long
> time) but when I try and ssh in I get the followin error:
>
> System is booting up. See pam_nologin(8)

For some reason your /run/nologin lockfile wasn't removed. This is easy to fix, though. Just run "rm /run/nologin" and you should be good.

> 1. the snapshot backup retention does not seem to be working. I have 
> it set for 2 days but it keeps adding new days until the backup drive 
> runs out of space. In this case it gets to 4 snapshots.

I'm not sure about that one. I think one of the updates you're missing might solve that. If it doesn't, then there could be various causes and it would be best if I could take a look.

> 2. in trying to diagnose this I decided to try and do ayum update to 
> see if any updates would fix the problem but when I try and run Yum 
> update I get an error about Multilib:
> 
> Error:  Multilib version problems found. This often means that the 
> root
>        cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
>        pointing out that there is a problem.

This tells us that there is an RPM present that's installed in two versions for different architectures and now YUM struggles to update it.
The error output actually tells which RPM that is, but it's omitted from what you posted. Please try again and report back what it said with a bit less verbosity and I can help you to figure this out.

But like said: If you pass me the login details (offlist - of course) I'll gladly take a look and fix it for you free of charge.


Please below  the more detailed  error message when trying to yum update 

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Loaded plugins: blueonyx, fastestmirror, langpacks, openvz, priorities, vzlinux One or more plugins uses "close" handling but should use atexit directly.
Cleaning repos: Aventurine OS-Templates OS-Updates docker-ce-stable openvz-os
              : openvz-updates virtuozzolinux-base virtuozzolinux-updates Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
Error:  Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
       cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
       pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.:
       
         1. You have an upgrade for libvzevent which is missing some
            dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
            solve this by installing an older version of libvzevent of the
            different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture
            yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package
            requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with
            --exclude libvzevent.otherarch ... this should give you an error
            message showing the root cause of the problem.
       
         2. You have multiple architectures of libvzevent installed, but
            yum can only see an upgrade for one of those architectures.
            If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you
            can remove the one with the missing update and everything
            will work.
       
         3. You have duplicate versions of libvzevent installed already.
            You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors.
       
       ...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove
       this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to
       do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing
       much more problems).
       
       Protected multilib versions: libvzevent-8.0.2-1.vz7.x86_64 != libvzevent-7.0.7-6.vz7.i686
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If you could let me know the best way to resolve this, 

Thanks, and regards
Richard
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