Upgrade to 12.5 failed

[Frater]

Because one of the packages "libarchive" is already installed, the Plesk upgrade fails.
How can this be resolved?

Running rpm_check_debug
Fatal error during packages installation: Test Transaction Errors: package libarchive-2.8.4-11082614.x86_64 (which is newer than libarchive-2.8.4-6.el5.i386) is already installed

YumTestTransactionError: Test Transaction Errors: package libarchive-2.8.4-11082614.x86_64 (which is newer than libarchive-2.8.4-6.el5.i386) is already installed

Error: Failed to run the Yum utility.
The Yum utility failed to install the required packages.
Attention! Your software might be inoperable.
Please, contact product technical support.

 

[Frater]

I just made things worse....
I removed the packages without the packages that depend on it and installing the one it wants

rpm -e --nodeps libarchive
yum install libarchive-2.8.4-6.el5.i386

But now Plesk doesn't start anymore

# /etc/init.d/psa start
Starting psa... Starting sw-engine-fpm: /usr/sbin/sw-engine-fpm: error while loading shared libraries: libarchive.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
                                                           [FAILED]
                                                                      failed
Starting xinetd service...                                            done
Starting sw-cp-server service...                                      done
Starting mysqld service...                                            done
Starting named service...                                             done
Starting postgresql service...                                        not installed
Starting spamassassin service...                                      not installed
Plesk: Starting Mail Server... already started
Starting psa... Starting sw-engine-fpm: /usr/sbin/sw-engine-fpm: error while loading shared libraries: libarchive.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
                                                           [FAILED]
                                                                      failed

 

[mizar]

Hello,

You can install libarchive from 'epel' repository:

# wget -q  https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm
warning: epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 217521f6
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:epel-release           ########################################### [100%]
# yum install libarchive
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Determining fastest mirrors
* epel: ftp.lysator.liu.se
....
Installed:
  libarchive.i386 0:2.8.4-6.el5                             libarchive.x86_64 0:2.8.4-6.el5                          
Complete!
# /etc/init.d/sw-engine restart
Stopping sw-engine-fpm:                                    [FAILED]
Starting sw-engine-fpm:                                    [  OK  ]

 

[Frater]

I was able to install libarchive using yum (epel repo was already installed), but this didn't create the missing library. At the moment of your post I had someone from Odin support on my server and couldn't mess with it anymore.
They did this to solve it:

# ldd /usr/bin/sw-engine | grep -i libarchive.so.2
libarchive.so.2 => not found
# rpm -Uvh libarchive-2.8.4-14042917.x86_64.rpm --force
# ldd /usr/bin/sw-engine | grep -i libarchive.so.2
libarchive.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libarchive.so.2 (0x00002afc12bd2000)
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