On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > I just went looking for RHEL 5.3 ISOs on RHN, and I don't see them; > there is only a listing for RHEL 5 beta. Then I checked the older > releases (RHEL 4, RHEL 3), and they too have no "release" ISOs listed, > only beta. > > Sounds like somebody hit the wrong button on RHN. > > Then of course my systems can't download any updates from RHN: > > There was an error communicating with RHN. > RHN support will be disabled. > Error communicating with server. The message was: > timed out > > I only have "Basic" entitlements, so I'm largely paying for access to > RHN. Red Hat really needs to work on this or they're going to lose > customers. It isn't exactly hard to predict that when you release an > update, demand will go up.
To be honest this is an on-going problem from 2000? Nearly every release/sub-release comes out.. you end up with RHN out-of-sync with what is supposed to be happening. Then comes the emails that RHN is not working for customers, and RH needs to fix it or they will lose customers, and that goes on for about 3 days and it all works again. People working behind the scenes at RH spend their 72 hours trying to figure out what new thing came up that broke things this time. I basically put the couple of days after a release to be 'dead' space and if its important enough for my 'customers' not to have that problem I budget in a satellite. Sometimes they will do it.. and sometimes they won't. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
