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"Update notice ELSA-2022-0538 (from ol7-optional-latest) is broken"

MicrolinuxFeb 19 2022

Hi,
For the last 24 hours or so (at least) my inbox gets flooded with a tsunami of cron-related messages from all my servers running Oracle Linux 7.

Subject: Cron <root@sd-107066> run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
Update notice ELSA-2022-0538 (from ol7-optional-latest) is broken, or a bad duplicate, 
skipping. You should report this problem to the owner of the ol7-optional-latest 
repository. (...)

I tried to empty the metadata cache with yum clean all, but to no avail. These cron messages keep flooding my inbox.
Any idea what's going on here and how I can solve this problem?
Cheers from the sunny South of France,
Niki

Comments

User_IFAZN

Looks like not ol7_optional_latest but ol7_latest is broken.
https://bugzilla.oracle.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17777

User_IWC9S

Hi Niki,
it seems that there is a corruption on the "ol7_optional_latest" repository.
The command
# yum check-update --verbose
is failing with
########################################## Begin output
Duplicate of ELSA-2022-0538 differs in some fields:
<<<<<<< ol7_optional_latest:issued
'2022-02-15'
=======
'2022-02-16'
>>>>>>> ol7_latest:issued
Update notice ELSA-2022-0538 (from ol7_optional_latest) is broken, or a bad duplicate, skipping.
You should report this problem to the owner of the ol7_optional_latest repository.
To help pinpoint the issue, please attach the output of "yum updateinfo --verbose" to the report.
Duplicate of ELSA-2022-0514 differs in some fields:
<<<<<<< ol7_optional_latest:issued
'2022-02-14'
=======
'2022-02-16'
>>>>>>> ol7_latest:issued
Update notice ELSA-2022-0514 (from ol7_optional_latest) is broken, or a bad duplicate, skipping.
########################################## End output
No errors after I disabled "ol7_optional_latest" repository.
I hope that helps.
Kind regards,
Marin

Microlinux

Same problem on a different package today. Oracle package maintainers really should get their act together. This problem doesn't appear in any other RHEL7 clone.

User_IWC9S

Strange indeed, I hope that is not an attempt to modify and push compromised packages.

Sergio-Oracle

@microlinux: can you provide details on the update notice that is causing issues now. Best we can tell, this is an issue triggered by inconsistent CDN state.

1 person found this helpful
Sergio-Oracle

Update: I can confirm that yum metadata had to be regenerated due to inconsistencies around February 22. For those encountering these errors, are your systems behind a proxy?

User_IFAZN

No more error messages here since 2022-02-21 16:15 CET. No problems with other packages.

Sergio-Oracle

@user-ifazn: thanks for letting us know.

User_JD9JV

Hello,
I am having the same issue when I tried to do Yum update, i have cleaned the cache and everything but still getting the same error. can you please help me out.
Error Message:
"Update notice ELBA-2022-9169 (from ol7_developer) is broken, or a bad duplicate, skipping.
You should report this problem to the owner of the ol7_developer repository.
To help pinpoint the issue, please attach the output of "yum updateinfo --verbose" to the report.
Update notice ELBA-2022-9170 (from ol7_developer) is broken, or a bad duplicate, skipping".

Sergio-Oracle

@user-jd9jv do you have both repos ol7_developer and ol7_addons enabled?

User_JD9JV

ol7_addons/x86_64 enabled
ol7_developer_UEKR5/x86_64 disabled
ol7_developer_UEKR6/x86_64 disabled

User_JD9JV

ol7_addons/x86_64 enabled:
ol7_developer/x86_64 enabled:
ol7_developer_EPEL/x86_64 enabled:
ol7_developer_UEKR5/x86_64 disabled
ol7_developer_UEKR6/x86_64 disabled
ol7_developer_kvm_utils/x86_64 disabled

Sergio-Oracle

OK, it's being looked at.

User_JD9JV

can you please help me to resolve this issue?

Sergio-Oracle

It should be resolved already. What do you see now after running this?
yum clean all

User_JD9JV

same above error is showing, nothing changed

Sergio-Oracle

So you ran yum clean all?
Also, is your system behind a proxy?

Sergio-Oracle

Can you try (temporarily) disabling the ol7_addons repo?
yum --disablerepo=ol7_addons updateinfo --verbose

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