I have an odd problem that I have been unable to solve. Occasionally,
one of my RHEL5
systems (and not always the same one, and has been two or three of them
at once sometimes)
will not show an update for a package (and this is not specific to any
package, as various ones
have been affected this way )when all of my other systems do. In each
case, the odd
package has existed on all of my RHEL5 systems. Both of 'yum
check-udpate' and
'yum update' will indicate no update needed on the aberrant system(s).
Eventually (and it
may be many days), the update will show up and be available to be
installed - even tho'
it has already been installed on all of my other systems for quite some
time. For example,
I just went through the update of java-1.6.0-openjdk (and
java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin)
on my systems - all but one. The bulk of my systems now show:
$ rpm -q java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2.x86_64
java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2.x86_64
while the aberrant system shows:
$ rpm -q java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.20.b11.el5.x86_64
java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-0.20.b11.el5.x86_64
and yet that same system shows:
# yum update java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
rhel-x86_64-client-workst 100% |=========================| 1.4 kB
00:00
rhel-x86_64-client-5 100% |=========================| 1.4 kB
00:00
Setting up Update Process
Could not find update match for java-1.6.0-openjdk
Could not find update match for java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin
No Packages marked for Update
I have run 'yum clean metadata; yum clean dbcache; yum clean all; rpm
--rebuilddb' and
this makes no difference. Note that this system is configured
identically to our other
systems with regard to the 'up2date' file in /etc/sysconfig/rhn and
(based on previous
experience) will eventually get the update. (And, of course, the
problem affects
random systems, and so is not system specific.)
I would much prefer to have all systems run the same level of software
when I initiate
an update (after testing on my test machine). Does anyone have any
further suggestions?
Andy
--
Andy Feldt
Senior System Support Programmer
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Oklahoma
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