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Troubleshooting Errors Accessing the Yum Repository on the BDA Mammoth Node of the Cluster During Node Reprovision/Migration and in General (Doc ID 2143787.1)

Last updated on JUNE 12, 2021

Applies to:

Big Data Appliance Integrated Software - Version 3.0 and later
Linux x86-64

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NOTE: In the examples that follow, user details, cluster names, hostnames, directory paths, filenames, etc. represent a fictitious sample (and are used to provide an illustrative example only). Any similarity to actual persons, or entities, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended in any manner.

  

How to troubleshoot problems accessing the yum repository on the Mammoth node of the cluster during node migration/reprovision. The troubleshooting steps can be used any time there is a problem with access to the yum repository on the Mammoth node from another node.

In the example here Node 1 migration fails at Step 9, Install Hadoop, with:

INFO: Step 9 InstallHadoop
INFO: Acquiring run lock ...
INFO: Creating nodelist files...
...

Error [69931]: (//bdanode06.example.com//Stage[main]/Hadoop::Installpkg2/Package[cloudera-manager-agent]/ensure) change from 5.5.1-1.cm551.p0.8.el6 to latest failed: Could not get latest version: Execution of '/usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/package/yumhelper.py' returned 1: Traceback (most recent call last):
Error [69931]: (//bdanode06.example.com//Stage[main]/Hadoop::Installpkg2/Package[python-setuptools]/ensure) change from 0.6.10-3.el6 to latest failed: Could not get latest version: Execution of '/usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/package/yumhelper.py' returned 1: Traceback (most recent call last):
Error [69931]: (//bdanode06.example.com//Stage[main]/Hadoop::Installpkg2/Package[cloudera-manager-daemons]/ensure) change from 5.5.1-1.cm551.p0.8.el6 to latest failed: Could not get latest version: Execution of '/usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/package/yumhelper.py' returned 1: Traceback (most recent call last):
...

Based on these errors the Node 1 migration fails because packages can not be installed on Node 6. Further checking the logs on the Mammoth node shows errors of, "yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: bda." below for Node 6:

May 9 20:45:35 bdanode05 puppet-master[69931]: (//bdanode06.example.com/Puppet)
yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: bda.
Please verify its path and try again

Some causes for this could be a network connection issue (either a proxy (http or yum)) or a firewall.

Troubleshooting steps are below.

Troubleshooting Steps

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