issues while updating to RHEL 7.7

[ronaldocr]

While we were updating of RHEL systems from 7.5 to 7.7 we were having issues.

We were having problems completing the install because of the below package.After we removed that package the update to 7.7 was completed.

Nagios Core -- 4.4.3 Nagios XI -- 5.6.10 and Mariadb -- 5.5.60-1.el7_5.x86_64 support RedHat 7.7?

Can we remove freetds-libs-1.1.11-1.el7.x86_64 from RedHat 7.7?

freetds-libs-1.1.11-1.el7.x86_64 information:
FreeTDS is a project to document and implement the TDS (Tabular DataStream) protocol. TDS is used by Sybase(TM) and Microsoft(TM) for client to database server communications. FreeTDS includes call level interfaces for DB-Lib, CT-Lib, and ODBC.
This package contains the libraries for freetds.

[ronaldocr]

I also wanted to find out if this package is needed??

[scottwilkerson]

I believe the freetds package is what is required to monitor MSSQL databases.

What was the error that was preventing the upgrade? I have not heard anything about this from any other clients.

[ronaldocr]

(210/488): libgs-9.25-2.el7_7.2.x86_64.rpm | 4.6 MB 00:00:00
freetds-1.1.11-1.el7.x86_64.rp FAILED
https://xxx.xx.xx.xx/xx/repos/xxx/xx/xx ... x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
To address this issue please refer to the below knowledge base article

https://access.redhat.com/articles/xxxx

If above article doesn't help to resolve this issue please open a ticket with Red Hat Support.

(211/488): libidn2-2.2.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm | 137 kB 00:00:00
freetds-libs-1.1.11-1.el7.x86_ FAILED
https://xxx.xx.xx.xx/xx/repos/xxx/xx/xx ... x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found

Current version that is installed is Name : freetds
Arch : x86_64
Version : 0.95.81
Release : 1.el7

Will this package work with RHEL 7.7 or it has to be updated to the latest tds version

[lmiltchev]

You may be having some issues with your repos, just by looking at the error below:

[Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found

Are you using a proxy, custom and/or local repos?

Can you update your system successfully, when you run the following?

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yum clean all
yum update

Can you show us the repos that you are currently using?

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yum repolist -v

Will this package work with RHEL 7.7 or it has to be updated to the latest tds version

Why do you want to keep the old package, and not update it? Are you asking because you haven't been able to update it so far?

[ronaldocr]

Yes looks like issue with repo. I was able to update the server but excluding the package because like I said the when I did yum update -y it errored out with 404 for that package. I could manually update the package to latest version but checking with our infrastructure team as to why we have the issue with package on the repo.

[lmiltchev]

It seems like we are moving to the right direction. Please let us know if you have any further questions or it is ok to close this topic. Thanks!

[ronaldocr]

Sorry for the delayed so we found out it was an issue with satellite server and we do not have Nagios repos and we cannot access outside network. So how can I get these packages offline from the Nagios repo.

freetds x86_64 1.1.11-1.el7
freetds-libs x86_64 1.1.11-1.el7

[lmiltchev]

You will have to download these packages on another server, that is connected to the Internet, move them over to your other machine, and do a local install.

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yum localinstall <xxx.rpm>

The only version that we have in the nagios repo is 0.95.81:
https://repo.nagios.com/nagiosxi-deps/7 ... x86_64.rpm

so, you would need to find rpms with the newer version of these packages online.

[ronaldocr]

We already have that version installed. I don't see the latest version under repos. The issue was when we were trying update RHEL 7.7 our repo was showing latest 1.11.XXXX and it could not update it and failing out with 404 error. Even Nagios repo does not have the latest version which is showing up in our repo.

Below is what we have currently showing.
# yum list installed | grep freetds
freetds.x86_64 0.95.81-1.el7 @/freetds-0.95.81-1.el7.x86_64
# yum check-update freetds
freetds.x86_64 1.1.11-1.el7