upcp errors on your cpanel update

Most of time cpanel update won’t get any errors. If you getting the following error when cPanel tries to update.

 Running `/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/updatenow –upcp –log=/var/cpanel/updatelogs/update.12522061.log` failed, exited with code 25 (signal = 0)

Check the following files which is OS version and cpanel sysinfo configuration.

cat /etc/redhat-release

cat /var/cpanel/sysinfo.config

open your /var/cpanel/sysinfo.config file and  make sure “rpm_dist_ver” is not configured as “unknown”.  It should match the major version of the OS.

For example :

+-(root@cPanel)(04:51:50)
+-(~)->cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.9 (Final)

+-(root@cPanel)(04:44:19)
+-(~)->cat /var/cpanel/sysinfo.config
ises=2
lock=
release=5.9
rpm_arch=
rpm_dist=centos
rpm_dist_ver=unknown

+-(root@cPanel)(04:44:57)
+-(~)->/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/gensysinfo
/var/cpanel/sysinfo.config updated.

+-(root@cPanel)(04:45:35)
+-(~)->cat /var/cpanel/sysinfo.config
ises=2
lock=
release=5.9
rpm_arch=i386
rpm_dist=centos
rpm_dist_ver=5