[rhn-users] up2date not working

[Andy Wallace]

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 15:17, Kassim Kasmani wrote:
> My up2date app is not working.  I am using Redhat Enterprise WS 3.  I 
> have about 128 updates to do but I can't do them because the up2date app 
> just freezes.
> 
> It says it's fetching the RPM headers and it just stops when fetching 
> the Cyrus package.  Nothing happens after that and I have to kill the app.
> 
> I do the latest version of the up2date.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
Check that your /var partition is not 100% full. The same thing happened
to me once and that was the cause.

Unfortunately the GUI doesn't display any error messages, it just hangs.
Try running 'up2date -u' from the command line and it should give you an
idea as to what is going wrong.

Andy