[Spacewalk-list] RHEL4 updates not indicated

[Jason M. Nielsen]

Forgot:  Spacewalk 1.4, RHEL5 x8664, Oracle 11g.

On 06/17/2011 09:23 AM, Jason M. Nielsen wrote:
> We have a number of RHEL4 hosts and some are showing required updates
> properly and some are not. ie: Packages shows 120 but sometimes it does not.
>
> I know the hosts are outdated. If I tell SW to update they do and if I
> run up2date --dry-run it indicates hundreds of updates available. Some
> are 4u3 hosts and the channel is up to 4u8.
>
> I have tried updating the package profile without success. I have also
> tried restarting spacewalk. Also tried  up2date -p and up2date --hardware.
>
> Sometimes if I reregister the host by deleting the profile then --force
> rhnreg_ks everything shows up fine.
>
> Anyone know a clean "fix" for this?
>
> Thanks.