On 7/13/07, Hugh Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Kenton Brede wrote:
> I've got a RHEL 5 box installed a couple weeks ago.  Today I tried to
> run "yum update" and got a "Could not determine what version of Red
> Hat Linux you are running." error.    I ran "rpm --rebuilddb" as the
> error message suggested which did nothing to fix my problem.  I then
> deleted the RHN entry for the server and tried to re-register.  After
> the register process took my user name and password I got the
> following error.
>
> 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> RPM error.  The message was:
> Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running.
> If you get this error, try running
>
>                rpm --rebuilddb
> 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> How can I recover from this and what is going on?
> Thanks,
> Kent
>


Is the redhat-release package installed?

I believe so, "rpm -qa" isn't working either, but comparing it to
another rhel 5 system the "redhat-release" files appear to be the
same.
Kent

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