up2date exits immediately (RHEL 4)

[Phil Bettinson]

Matthew Galgoci wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:43:52 -0500
>> From: "Lengyel, Florian" <FLengyel at gc.cuny.edu>
>> Reply-To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
>> To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: up2date exits immediately (RHEL 4)
>>
>> Hi,
>> I have two RHEL 4 AS i386 systems on which up2date simply exits immediately. Recompiling and installing from source RPMS had no effect. Has this been encountered before?
>> Thanks,
> 
> Usually when something exits that fast the reason will be pretty clear when running
> it under strace.
> 
If you don't get a message saying "why" up2date has exited (normally it 
will tell you that there's no licence, must be associated with a 
channel, no route to host, that kind of thing), then I would check the 
rpm database, or see if there is a "hung" up2date running in the background.

Check the rpm site, and try a few of the things that they suggest 
(removing lock files, rebuilding the db, that sort of thing)
http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/

See if that gets you going again. I've never had problems like with 
up2date, but I have with yum.

Thanks,

~Phil

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