Not A Bug centmin.sh Change Python to Centos included ones came up again after already running it

Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 already does run CentOS python packages, just Centmin Mod on centmin.sh does a check if pip upgrades are available and does them if it can and if not, alerts you to do them manually (as designed).

 

the prompt for the script run isn't for pip upgrades, it's to switch from Python 3.6 provided by EPEL YUM to Python 3.6 provided natively in CentOS YUM starting with CentOS 7.8

 

If it still asks or you want to debug centmin.sh menu runs, use debug run logged to a log file to inspect what is going on underneath

You can try running centmin.sh menu option 24 in debug mode logged to debug.txt text file in /root/centminlogs directory by running these 3 commands paying attention on 2nd command's run as to what text is displayed on the screen during any hangs you may experience.

Code (Text):

cd /usr/local/src/centminmod
echo 24 | bash -x centmin.sh 2>&1 | awk '{ print strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), $0; fflush(); }' | tee /root/centminlogs/debug.txt && echo "debug log saved at /root/centminlogs/debug.txt"
sed -i "s|$(hostname)|hostname|g" /root/centminlogs/debug.txt

Then copy the contents of /root/centminlogs/debug.txt into a pastebin.com or gist.github.com shared link - with an sensitive info masked or if you're more comfortable private message me with the link. At least server hostname will be replaced with word hostname instead via last sed replacement line.

You can search the debug.txt log for keywords like 'python36_install.sh' to get to the section of centmin.sh debug run code relevant to the prompt or whatever you're troubleshooting for i.e. error messages or other messages you want to dig into troubleshooting.

 

the lines in inc/cpcheck.inc that check if python36_install.sh prompt is made is at cpcheck.inc - centminmod/centminmod - Sourcegraph

Code (Text):

    if [[ "$(yum list installed python34u* python35u* python36u* -q --exclude=python* 2>&1 | grep -v Installed | grep -v 'No matching Packages' | tr -s ' ' | column -t)" ]]; then
      PROMPT_FOR_BASE_PYTHON='y'
      YUM_EXCLUDE_PYTHON=' --exclude=python34-*,python35-*,python36-*'
    else
      YUM_EXCLUDE_PYTHON=""
    fi

actual command it checks to see if non-empty output exists

Code (Text):

yum list installed python34u* python35u* python36u* -q --exclude=python* 2>&1 | grep -v Installed | grep -v 'No matching Packages' | tr -s ' ' | column -t

if non-empty output exists, it will prompt

Code (Text):

      if [[ "$CENTOS_SEVEN" = '7' && "$PROMPT_FOR_BASE_PYTHON" = [yY] ]]; then
        echo "detected python36u IUS Community YUM packages installed"
        echo "For CentOS 7 they have been replaced with native CentOS 7.7+"
        echo "python3 packages now"
        echo
        echo "One time task to run the addons/python36_install.sh script"
        echo "to switch from python36u to python3 packages for Python 3.6"
        echo "before doing YUM update command, run the script at:"
        echo "/usr/local/src/centminmod/addons/python36_install.sh"
      fi

So check your yum history to see if you ever had any python34u, python35u or python36u packages installed

Code (Text):

yum history list python34u
yum history list python35u
yum history list python36u

 

so those packages were never installs so strange it would trigger the prompt

 

you mean the prompt to run /usr/local/src/centminmod/addons/python36_install.sh ?

that is triggered when this command returns a value

Code (Text):

yum list installed python34u* python35u* python36u* -q --exclude=python* 2>&1 | grep -v Installed | grep -v 'No matching Packages' | tr -s ' ' | column -t

can you post output for that command and this one

Code (Text):

yum history list python34u* python35u* python36u*

and this one

Code (Text):

yum history list python* | head -n30