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 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
