[Spacewalk-list] Wrong kernel information in System Info

[Pierre Casenove]

I've just tested and, you were right, I never rebooted the clients after
upgrading the kernel... I thought a did it tough!

After a reboot, the information is refreshed.

Thanks for having found my mistake,

Pierre


2011/10/7 Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com>

> James McCabe wrote:
> % Hi Pierre
> %
> % I had the same problem.  on the clients that were showing up with wrong
> % kernels i just did a rhn-profile-sync  and then a rhn_check  and it
> worked
> % for me. i think i also had to rhn_register on one of the and just
> % reregistered it..    :-D
>
> Hi,
>
> running kernel version is checked on every rhn_check run.
> So I did a test
> 1) register a client with more kernels installed,
> 2) check the kernel version installed (uname -r) and on webUI
> 3) reboot with a different kernel
> 4) check the kernel version installed (uname -r) and on webUI
> both on RHEL5 and RHEL6 with stock and nightly client packages.
> All four tests passed as expected.
>
> The only mistake which comes on my mind - are you really running on new
> kernel rather than just having it installed?
>
> % Bubba
> %
> % On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Pierre Casenove <pcasenove at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> ...
> % >>> hello list,
> % >>> Now that I can correctly see needed updates for the clients, I've
> noticed
> % >>> another thing: the kernel version information in Systems--> <Client>
> -->
> % >>> Overview --> System Info is never refreshed.
> % >>> I registered a client with kernel version 2.6.18-238.el5.
> % >>> I've upgraded the kernel of this client from spacewalk to version
> % >>> 2.6.18-274 and then removed the old kernel.
> % >>> But the version printed on System Info is still 2.6.18-238. I've ran
> a
> % >>> rhn_check and a rhn-profile-sync on the client, still no luck.
> % >>>
> % >>> Coud you please tell me how this field is updated? I think that the
> query
> % >>> is broken for postgresql, but I don't konw hos spacewalk updates this
> % >>> information, so it is not easy to debug this.
> % >>>
> % >>> Thanks in advance for you help,
> % >>>
> % >>> Pierre
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Michael Mráka
> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>
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