Re: Has RedHat stopped serving 'free' up2date accounts???

[fluke gibson mw luc edu]

On Mon, 19 May 2003, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:

> Joe Giles wrote:
> > Here, Here... APT is great. I use it all the time. No need for up2date
> > anymore...
> > 
> > Try it at least.. There is a cool GUI front end for it called Synaptic.
> > Great software...
> 
> 
> I downloaded both apt and synaptic. I then used synaptic to upgrade my 
> pristine RH9 workstation at home. It determined that there were a few 
> packages that needed upgrading and a handfull that needed to be added 
> because of dependencies. So far, so good.
> 
> 
> Unlike my experience with up2date, which has been very good (and which I 
> use with a paid-for rhn account to keep a RH9 server updated), I was 
> less than impressed:
> 
> While installing package glibc-2.3.2-27.9:
> warning: /etc/localtime created as /etc/localtime.rpmnew
> error: %post(glibc-2.3.2-27.9) scriptlet failed, exit status 121

Looks like RH Bug #88456!

I have been using synaptic on some systems and haven't run into this bug 
yet.

Anyways, to get a feel for what type of state the glibc update left your 
system in, go read:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88456

RH has been aware of the bug for a month, they just haven't modified the 
glibc update accordingly yet.