Athlon + up2date from RH9 --> misery

[Andy Green]

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On Sunday 12 October 2003 17:30, William Hooper wrote:
> Andy Green said:
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> > Hi -
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> > Been fighting up2date for two days.  Current state of affairs is
> > after last update, I cannot register this system with up2date any
> > more because it claims to have architecture athlon-redhat-linux,
> > which presumably no longer exists.
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> Since you provide no error messages, we are forced to guess.  Are

Sorry, I will try to be more helpful.

> you sure it isn't the issue of the "fedora-release" package being
> updated without a corresponding channel in RHN?
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2003-October/msg011
>02.html

I think you're right.  Here is the situation explained in a bit more 
detail.

1) Go to rhn.redhat.com in browser and delete all system profiles

2) up2date --register    as root

3)  Use existing account credentials (which currently has no systems).  
The information included about hardware and network section says:

Redhat Linux version: 0.95   CPU Model: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+
Hostname cb.ath.cx    CPU Speed 1599MHz
IP Address 127.0.0.1   Memory: 768 megabytes

(The memory has previously been seen to report 4MB).

4) After a progress dialog for a few seconds, the Up2date app shows 
the following:

System Registered but Inactive
Important Registration Info
Invalid architecture and OS release combination (0.95, 
athlon-redhat-linux)

Because the 2.6 test kernels for athlon arch were yanked, when I saw 
the first words "Invalid architecture" I assumed this was a general 
revocation of the athlon-specific packages, and that because up2date 
felt it was on an Athlon machine it was never going to be able to get 
any new packages... looks like I was completely confused and its the 
same problem as you pointed out.

- -Andy
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