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Re[3]: up2date crashed during update



Hello Stephen,

Friday, May 27, 2005, 9:54:43 AM, you wrote:

> Art,
>    As a matter of interest do rpm related commands work?  (such as rpm -qa)
> In particular does  rpm -q redhat-release  return anything. I made this
> mistake earlier, up2date is querying the rpmdb to find the revision of the
> redhat-release  package you have installed, it doesn't read the contents
> of /etc/redhat-release. I re-created your problem by removing the 
> redhat-release  package from one of my systems. It was easily fixable by
> re-installing that package (which you might need to do from the original
> media as, naturally, up2date won't work).

Thanks, Stephen

redhat-release  has  been  deleted indeed and reinstallation fixed the
problem.


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 Art                            mailto:art okunev hostway com au

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