Linux – Fresh install of RHEL 6.1 – yum failing to update

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I'm getting some errors when trying to update some RHEL 6.1 64 bit servers with yum. I tried a fresh install of the OS and then ran yum -y upgrade and received the same errors that I was getting on my production servers.

I've tried yum -y upgrade --skip-broken and rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest and neither seemed to help.

I think the problem might be that we are missing a package on our satellite servers, but I'm not really sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

--> Processing Dependency: /bin/sed for package: redhat-lsb-4.0-3.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: /bin/sed for package: policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: /bin/sed for package: groff-1.18.1.4-21.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: /bin/sed for package: initscripts-9.03.23-1.el6.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Skip-broken could not solve problems
Error: Package: initscripts-9.03.23-1.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201105101844.x86_64/6.1)
       Requires: /bin/sed
       Removing: sed-4.2.1-5.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201105101844.x86_64/6.1)
           Not found
       Updated By: sed-4.2.1-7.el6.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-fastrack-6)
           Not found
Error: Package: redhat-lsb-4.0-3.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201105101844.x86_64/6.1)
       Requires: /bin/sed
       Removing: sed-4.2.1-5.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201105101844.x86_64/6.1)
           Not found
       Updated By: sed-4.2.1-7.el6.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-fastrack-6)
           Not found
Error: Package: groff-1.18.1.4-21.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201105101844.x86_64/6.1)
       Requires: /bin/sed
       Removing: sed-4.2.1-5.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201105101844.x86_64/6.1)
           Not found
       Updated By: sed-4.2.1-7.el6.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-fastrack-6)
           Not found
Error: Package: policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201105101844.x86_64/6.1)
       Requires: /bin/sed
       Removing: sed-4.2.1-5.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201105101844.x86_64/6.1)
           Not found
       Updated By: sed-4.2.1-7.el6.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-fastrack-6)
           Not found
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Best Answer

I ran into the same problem and was able to resolve it by manually updating the sed package:

rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/scientificlinux/6.1/x86_64/updates/fastbugs/sed-4.2.1-7.el6.x86_64.rpm

After that installed, I was able to run yum -y update without any problems.

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