Kernel Upgrade Help needed!

[Chadley Wilson]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 20:46, William Hooper wrote:
> Chadley Wilson said:
> >>
> > up2date -nox
> > gives the following error:
> >
> > usage: up2date [OPTIONS] [<packages>]
> >
> > /usr/sbin/up2date: error: no such option: -n
> 
> My fault, I should have left out a space or added a dash:
> 
> up2date-nox -u
> 
> or
> 
> up2date --nox -u
> 
> See what going from memory gets you :-)
> 

OK that works, heres the new error,

[root at chadlin root]# up2date-nox -u
 
Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-1...
 
Fetching
http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info...
There was some sort of I/O error: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure
in name resolution')>
[root at chadlin root]#

> >
> >> Also, are you behind a proxy or is it just a firewall?
> >>
> > Both
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102272
> 
> So you have read the bug report and tried the steps you need to go through
> to get up2date to use the proxy?  In this situation I would personally use
> yum as it handles the proxy better at this moment in time.  I don't recall
> off hand if rhn-applet has the correct code to use the proxy.
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper
>