Hey all... I've spent about 3 days now beating Google half to death, and I can't seem to find a thing about this. I'm hoping someone around here can help.

System specs are CentOS 3.1, cpanel/WHM, clientexec


the suggestions I've been given have been to just remove shadow-utils, but I have no idea if cpanel and/or clientexec would need it. Searches on the respective forums come up blank.

If anyone's had this problem, I'd *really* appreciate it if you could share your fix!

Thanks!

-B

What is the exec error. and what all is it trying to install.

I'm actually not even trying to install anything, just update the package list. Please see below:

root@(edited) [~]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: CentOS-3.1 - Addons
Server: CentOS-3.1 - Base
Server: CentOS-3.1 - Extras
Server: CentOS-3.1 - Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
.conflict between glibc and shadow-utils
root@(edited) [~]#

any more questions, ask and I'll provide whatever I can

Thanks!

-B

What do you get when you issue the following:
rpm -qa | grep shadow-utils
and
rpm -qa | grep glibc

Have you rebuilt your rpm database? If not, it might be wise to do so, also flush your yum rpm headers and remove old packages:
yum clean all

Have you been using packages from another source for another OS? Also, check your yum.conf and make sure you aren't using the main mirror.caosity.org ( or .centos.org ) as this may be causing problems. I believe ( from the mailing list ) that they have stopped all public access to that server, but for official mirrors.

[/etc]# rpm -qa | grep shadow-utils
shadow-utils-4.0.3-20
shadow-utils-4.0.3-15


[/etc]# rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-common-2.3.2-95.6
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.34
glibc-devel-2.3.2-95.20
glibc-2.3.2-95.6
glibc-headers-2.3.2-95.20


rebuilt the db, did yum clean all

yum.conf *does* use the main mirror:
[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/

Any perticular reason you have shadow-utils-4.0.3-15 ? Perhaps rpm -e shadow-utils-4.0.3-15 then try yum again ( with a different mirror ).

I haven't a clue, as this was the base install by my server host.

I'll remove it, and find a mirror, give it another shot, and post the results.

Thanks for the help!!

-B

that did it!

Thanks a helluva lot for the help bud... I owe you a beer ;-)

-B