Re: RHN not synching with up2date

[Ed Wilts <ewilts ewilts org>]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 07:26:07PM -0400, Ed Westphal wrote:
> You're a genius! :-) 'rhn_check' did the trick. I'd done all the rest of
> it. What goes wrong that it gets mis-synched? I'm still pretty new to
> Linux, but trying to learn all the time in retirement. Worked on Big
> Blue systems. Many thanks for the help.

After not watching this thread closely, I realized I was bitten by this
too and rhn_check didn't work for me.  On some systems some times,
up2date will silently exit without doing anything at all.  Even a
show-channels or showall will exit without giving any output.  It's a
weird issue...  I saw this on 2 different systems today.  One I had
updated earlier in the day and the other one is at Update 2.

        .../Ed
> 
> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 11:06, Chip Turner wrote:
> > Try running 'rhn_check' to pick the action up.  Make sure rhnsd is
> > running ('service rhnsd status' followed by 'service rhnsd start' if
> > it isn't running, as well as a 'chkconfig rhnsd on' to have it start
> > at boot).  If that still doesn't pick the action up, confirm the
> > output of 'grep ID- /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid' (specifically the
> > numbers) match what the website lists as the ID of the system in
> > question.
> > 
> > Chip
> > 
> > Ed Westphal <enwestph rochester rr com> writes:
> > 
> > > Here's the problem in a nutshell - every up2date that comes through goes
> > > on the machine as it should. However, the RHN website tells me the
> > > up2dates are 'pending', waiting to be picked up. I've done the usual
> > > things -p switch, new security key, etc. I've asked RH support for help
> > > and have an outstanding ticket via my paid support entitlement. The
> > > Phillipines based engineer keeps telling me to repeat the same old
> > > routine that hasn't helped so far. Anyone have some ideas how to
> > > diagnose / repair this problem?
> > > -- 
> > > Ed Westphal <enwestph rochester rr com>
> > >
> Ed Westphal <enwestph rochester rr com>

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