Up2date Question

[Thomas E Dukes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Peter Lesterhuis
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 6:35 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Up2date Question
> 
> >
> >
> >I updated to FC4 last night. I'm using the RH up2date
> >> with
> >> http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/
> >> as my mirror.
> >> 
> >> When I click on "Launch up2date" it comes back with "There was a 
> >> fatal error communicating with the server.  The message was:
> >> 
> >> An HTTP error occurred:
> >> URL:
> >> 
> http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/head
> >> ers/header.info
> >> Status Code: 404
> >> Error Message: Not Found
> >> 
> >> 
> >> It seems that it is looking for a "headers" folder that 
> doesn't exist 
> >> in the FC4 updates as it did in FC3.
> >> I can't locate where I need to edit this.
> >  
> >
> >
> >You missed to search for this issue in the list archive of 
> the last few
> >days.
> >Use the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.rpmnew file as the 
> repository format
> >changed and up2date has to reflect that. You old sources file has
> >obsolete entries.
> >
> >Alexander
> >
> Hi,
> I have the same trouble with up2date. Everytime I launch it I 
> am asked 
> to activate it. Then I can launch it and I receive the same 
> error code.
> I only have one /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file, no ...sources.rpmnew 
> file. I added yum url's in order to make it work, but this 
> was not very 
> succesful.

I had the same problem upgrading from FC2 and a host of other problems, X,
php/mysql.  My solution was to re-install my old FC2 system from backup.  I
couldn't deal with the problems with X nor the updates.  :-(