Update issues on RHEL 9

Andrew · 2024-11-13T15:56:15+00:00

Latest round of updates failed with a few package-related issues. RHEL 9.5, latest updates, using the community repo. Looks like some changes on both the Red...

WalterH

Interestingly, in grommunio-common-26.a6f127d-44.3.x86_64.rpm there is no nginx.conf copied to /etc/nginx. The question is, are there any scripts running that might modify nginx.conf or restore an old backup after installing grommunio-common?

Andrew

Looking at the spec file for grommunio-common using rpmrebuild, this part looks like the issue:

if [ -f "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" ]; then
        if ! grep -q "^load_module modules/ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_module.so;" "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf"; then
                sed -i 's/\(worker_processes.*\)/\1\nload_module modules\/ngx_http_vhost_traffic_status_module.so;/' "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf"
        fi
    if ! grep -q "^load_module modules/ngx_http_brotli_filter_module.so;" "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf"; then
                sed -i 's/\(worker_processes.*\)/\1\nload_module modules\/ngx_http_brotli_filter_module.so;/' "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf"
        fi
        if ! grep -q "^load_module modules/ngx_http_brotli_static_module.so;" "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf"; then
                sed -i 's/\(worker_processes.*\)/\1\nload_module modules\/ngx_http_brotli_static_module.so;/' "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf"
        fi
fi

This was looking at the grommunio-common-26.a6f127d-44.3.x86_64.rpm package from the repo using rpmrebuild -e -p grommunio-common-26.a6f127d-44.3.x86_64.rpm

WalterH

OK, it is a script.
Unfortunately I do not have a RHEL system to test.

daniel

@WalterH I can confirm that adding these three lines in nginx.conf can just be removed as the includes are loaded correctly from mod-brotli.conf and mod-vhost-traffic-status.conf.
I've also commented the same on https://github.com/grommunio/gromox/issues/121

Andrew

The issue is still occurring. It looks like we have the cause of it. I've had a rummage around on GitHub but unless I'm mistaken the spec files aren't on there to submit a PR?

Andrew

The nginx.conf issue is still occurring, but it looks like there's a new EL9 issue as well - this time a conflict between packages in the Grommunio and EPEL repos.
Attempting dnf upgrade exits with the following error message:

Error:
 Problem: package grommunio-common-27.db4a83f-49.7.x86_64 from @System requires (nginx-module-vts if nginx), but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both nginx-mod-vts-0.2.4-1.el9.x86_64 from epel and nginx-mod-vts-0.2.3-13.9.x86_64 from @System
  - cannot install both nginx-mod-vts-0.2.3-13.11.x86_64 from grommunio and nginx-mod-vts-0.2.4-1.el9.x86_64 from epel
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package nginx-mod-vts-0.2.3-13.9.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package nginx-2:1.20.1-20.el9.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package grommunio-common-27.db4a83f-49.7.x86_64

It looks like the EPEL repo has a newer (0.2.4-1) version of nginx-mod-vts than the Grommunio repo (0.2.3-13.11), so it's trying to upgrade to the EPEL version.
The EPEL version's spec file says it provides nginx-mod-vts. The Grommunio version says it provides both nginx-mod-vts and nginx-module-vts. The latter seems to be what grommunio-common specifies as a requirement, judging by the error; so the newer version provided by EPEL doesn't satisfy it.

The documentation says Grommunio requires the EPEL repo. If there's a need for a Grommunio-specific version of the nginx-module-vts package, perhaps it could be named a little differently from the EPEL package to avoid the potential for conflict?

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