RE: Up2date RH9 to AS

[Kevin Jackson <kevin jackson tradermedia co uk>]

Have you activated the Key @ 

https://www.redhat.com/apps/support/

?

-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com]
On Behalf Of Chiu, PCM (Peter) 
Sent: 09 July 2004 11:34
To: 'Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)'
Cc: Chiu, PCM (Peter) 
Subject: RE: Up2date RH9 to AS


How do you check if it is the right key, or which key to select?

Done a 

rhnreg_ks --username=xxx --password=xxxx

and got 
This system is already registered.  Use --force to override

So I repeated the command with --force, now get

Could not retrieve action item from server 
<Server for xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC>
Error code: -31
Error Message:
    Service not enabled for system profile: "machine name"
    This system does not have a valid entitlement for Red Hat Network.
    Please visit https://rhn.redhat.com/network/systems/entitlements.pxt or
    login at https://rhn.redhat.com, and form the "systems" tab, 
    select "system entitlements" to enable RHN service for this system.


Now on RHN, Systems Overview, I now have two entries for this machine:

   xxxxx.neodc.rl.ac.uk Red Hat Linux 9  Update
   xxxxx.neodc.rl.ac.uk Red Hat Linux 9  None

I have other entries that read
   yyyyyy.badc.rl.ac.uk Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v.3 for x86)
Management

I suppose my real question is, why up2date thinks the machine is Red Hat 9
instead of RH EL during the information gathering phase in up2date
--register?

I did try to change the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid to RH 3AS, or remove
this file altogether, but up2date --register still returns Red Hat 9
when it shows the local machine profile - even before the prompt for
forwarding
the details to RHN.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com]
On Behalf Of Kevin Jackson
Sent: 09 July 2004 11:15
To: 'Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)'
Subject: RE: Up2date RH9 to AS


Are you using the right key?
If it is showing as RH9 then the key you are using is for RH9 only.

Do a rhnreg_ks --username=user --password=password

And go from there.

Kev

-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com]
On Behalf Of Chiu, PCM (Peter) 
Sent: 09 July 2004 11:08
To: 'Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)'
Cc: Chiu, PCM (Peter) 
Subject: RE: Up2date RH9 to AS

Did try that, but the channel options are
a. RH 9 
b. disable

So no good.

Thanks for your response though.  Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com]
On Behalf Of Greg Swift
Sent: 09 July 2004 11:00
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: RE: Up2date RH9 to AS


Go to the system details of the box.  On the right column there is a
"Subscribed Channels" section, which should state the channel your box is
subscribed to, and also a link to "Alter Channel Subscriptions".

And if that won't let u.. Then I dunno *shrug*

-Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com]
On Behalf Of Chiu, PCM (Peter) 
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 4:49
To: 'Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)'
Cc: Chiu, PCM (Peter) 
Subject: Up2date RH9 to AS

I have recently updated a RH 9 box to RH EL 3 Update 2.

Actually, it is a fresh installation, on a separate partition from RH 9. The
machine name and address however remain the same.

I then tried to use "up2date --register" to put my machine profile to RHN so
that I can obtain updates from it.

I then realised that during the registration process, my machine profile is
described to be Red Hat 9, and not Red Hat 3AS.

The profile is registered on RHN, but a subsequent up2date will return the
system is fully up to date, and no updates are done.

I tried to check on the RHN, remove the entry, and register again, but no
joy.  There doesn't seem to be a way I can alter the machine profile to
reflect its base operating system.

Does anyone knows how to do that?

Thanks.


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