[rhn-users] RHN not recognizing necessary patches

[Todd Warner]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Norman Elton wrote:

> Help!
> 
> For the past few weeks, when I login to RHN, all of my machines appear 
> up to date (they have the blue checkmark), however, I'm getting e-mails 
> stating that they all need patches. Using RHN, I verify that specific 
> RPMs are installed and out of date, yet, the Errata screen shows 
> nothing.
> 
> If I run "up2date -p" to refresh the package profile, everything starts 
> working again and I can push out errata. Unfortunately, the next time 
> an errata comes out, I am forced to refresh the profile again before 
> RHN will recognize that the machine is out of date.
> 
> I've called tech support, customer service, posted a bugzilla bug, used 
> the RHN feedback form, and posted this issue on the general RedHat 
> mailing list. Nobody has been able to help.

Is this against hosted or an RHN Satellite? And if an RHN Satellite,
which version?

> Is anyone else seeing similar issues? I'm at my wit's end on this. If 
> things don't start working, I'll have to cancel my RedHat entitlements 
> and move elsewhere.
> 
> Norman
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Norman Elton
> Information Technology - Network Engineering
> College of William & Mary
> 757-221-7790
> 
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