[rhn-users] RHN not recognizing necessary patches

Norman Elton wnelto at net.wm.edu
Wed May 26 15:07:44 UTC 2004


There is no satellite server involved. This is directly to the RHN 
servers.

Norman

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Norman Elton
Information Technology - Network Engineering
College of William & Mary
757-221-7790


On May 26, 2004, at 11:00 AM, Todd Warner wrote:

> On Wed, 26 May 2004, Norman Elton wrote:
>
>> Help!
>>
>> For the past few weeks, when I login to RHN, all of my machines appear
>> up to date (they have the blue checkmark), however, I'm getting 
>> e-mails
>> stating that they all need patches. Using RHN, I verify that specific
>> RPMs are installed and out of date, yet, the Errata screen shows
>> nothing.
>>
>> If I run "up2date -p" to refresh the package profile, everything 
>> starts
>> working again and I can push out errata. Unfortunately, the next time
>> an errata comes out, I am forced to refresh the profile again before
>> RHN will recognize that the machine is out of date.
>>
>> I've called tech support, customer service, posted a bugzilla bug, 
>> used
>> the RHN feedback form, and posted this issue on the general RedHat
>> mailing list. Nobody has been able to help.
>
> Is this against hosted or an RHN Satellite? And if an RHN Satellite,
> which version?
>
>> Is anyone else seeing similar issues? I'm at my wit's end on this. If
>> things don't start working, I'll have to cancel my RedHat entitlements
>> and move elsewhere.
>>
>> Norman
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> Norman Elton
>> Information Technology - Network Engineering
>> College of William & Mary
>> 757-221-7790
>>
>>
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