[rhn-users] Management Entitlement, but no Base Channel

[Clifford Perry]

Tim Evans wrote:

>>The most common causes I would say are:
>>- missing redhat-release package from package profile of registered 
>>system - typically because of corrupt rpm database OR maybe registered a 
>>Fedora system to RHN
>>- installed say a Enterprise Linux 3 ES version of redhat-release and 
>>have no free ES slots within RHN (ES is just an example)
>>
>>RHN looks to see what version of redhat-release you have installed to 
>>determine what base channel to associate a system to when it registers 
>>to RHN.
>>    
>>
>
># cat /etc/redhat-release
>Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 4)
># up2date -i -u -f
>This system may not be updated until it is associated with a channel.
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Nooo -
rpm -q redhat-release

Up2date pushes the rpm database package listing to RHN when you 
register. So first check that the redhat-release package is listed in 
the rpm database and then also login to RHN and click on the system in 
question, go to Packages and browse/search to see if/what version of 
redhat-release is listed.

Then go to Channels -> Channel Entitlements to see if you have any free 
channel entitlements associated with that version of redhat-release.

Cliff.