Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 upgrade fails with 'Unresolvable chain of dependencies:openmpi-libs 1.2.8-4.el4 requires libdat.so.1'

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Issue

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 upgrade fails with the following error message

    Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
openmpi-libs 1.2.8-4.el4 requires libdat.so.1
openmpi-libs 1.2.8-4.el4 requires libdat.so.1(DAT_1.2)

Resolution


  • Install the 32-bit compat-dapl package:

 

# up2date compat-dapl --arch=i386

Diagnostic Steps

  • Its a known bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494022

The missing libraries are provided by the compat-dapl packages. Workaround is to install compat-dapl package.

up2date compat-dapl
up2date -u openmpi-libs

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