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October 28, 2006 | Comments: (0)
yum update errors
So while this is a bit of a re-hash on a problem folks have found a while back, it does warrant a revisit in that Fedora core 6 is now out and I'm anticipating a flurry of questions on why YUM Updates fail for all mirrors. It would seem that there exists some sort of bug in the SonicWall Security profiles that comes up with a false positive for a couple distros. I had it ONLY on disk 5 of the RHEL4-x86_64 version that Paul Venezia and I are using for our currently running Blade server shootout. However, it also blocked our attempts at updating Fedora Core 6 using Yum.
The solution was to turn off both Anti-virus and Anti-Spyware on my SonicWall 2040 running firmware SonicOS Enhanced 3.2.5.0-18e on ROM version SonicROM 3.1.0.2 Once BOTH were turned off, YUM updates worked fine. The good news was that we only had to turn it off at the top level, and not dig down to the individual interfaces. I'll comment on this base post once we figure out what the exact exclusion would be as a work around. This way we can leave anti-virus and anti-spyware running, but still be able to do YUM updates.
So to Warren Togami, thanks for all your efforts during your undergrad years on the Fedora project, and to Matt Szulik for the super cool Red Fedora and the memo. I wish we could have given Warren more than 3 credits for his ICS499 project that helped to kick off Fedora. Good luck to Warren in his new life with Red Hat.
Posted by Brian Chee on October 28, 2006 01:02 PM
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Brian,
Thanks for the info, CentOS 4.4 had same problem behind a Sonicwall 5060. Although I don't know yet exactly which exploit (unfortunately, the logging on the Sonicwall isn't quite as configurable as I'd hoped), it appears that it's the Anti-Spyware filter. Though this 5060 isn't running Anti-Virus, it is running IPS and Anti-Spyware, and adding the host I was trying to yum on to the Anti-Spyware exlclusion list fixed yum.
More later.
Craig
Posted by: Craig at November 6, 2006 07:36 AMI got word from SonicWall that a fix to the YUM signature will be forthcoming very soon. So it should arrive via the automagic updates once it's available. But yeah, it was definatley an annoyance.
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