I'm puzzled by some behaviour with RHEL5 errata updates. I've noticed problems on both machines registered to my institution's satellite server as well as a machine registered on rhn.redhat.com.
Basically, the RHN web interface displays the system as having updates available, but if you schedule them to apply, when rhn_check runs (either manually or by rhnsd), it doesn't see that there are new packages available, says that the latest packages are already installed, then gives up. Here's an example. On a system I installed in the last 24 hours from CDs, after registering there are 37 packages that need updating. Under "System Status", it says "Updates Available (update now)". I click on this and it displays all the advisories that apply to the system. I selected the tzdata update (RHEA-2007:0128) to apply, and confirmed it. But running rhn_check at the command line produces the following: ------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rhn_check -v Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Package tzdata - 2006m-2.fc6.noarch already installed and latest version [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ------------- The corresponding entries in /var/log/up2date are as follows: ------------- [Fri Apr 20 12:41:48 2007] up2date updating login info [Fri Apr 20 12:41:48 2007] up2date logging into up2date server [Fri Apr 20 12:41:49 2007] up2date successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server [Fri Apr 20 12:42:01 2007] up2date Adding packages to package profile: [] [Fri Apr 20 12:42:01 2007] up2date Removing packages from package profile: [] ------------- So essentially, nothing gets updated. The RHN web interface shows the installation event as succeeding, but it also shows that the out-of-date package has not been upgraded. However, if I go into the system's Software -> Packages -> Upgrade area it does show that while package tzdata-2006m-2.fc6 is installed tzdata-2007d-1.el5 is the latest package. If I manually select it for upgrade, then run rhn_check, the update works. ------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rhn_check -v Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "rhnplugin" plugin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ------------- And the corresponding /var/log/up2date entries: ------------- [Fri Apr 20 12:46:42 2007] up2date updating login info [Fri Apr 20 12:46:42 2007] up2date logging into up2date server [Fri Apr 20 12:46:43 2007] up2date successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server [Fri Apr 20 12:47:15 2007] up2date Adding packages to package profile: ['tzdata-2007d-1.el5'] [Fri Apr 20 12:47:15 2007] up2date Removing packages from package profile: [] [Fri Apr 20 12:47:19 2007] up2date Updating package profile ------------- Anybody else seeing this behaviour? Regards, Nik _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
