[rhn-users] Management Entitlement, but no Base Channel

[Clifford Perry]

Tim Evans wrote:

>I have a RHEL 3 system under Management entitlement, but cannot run up2date 
>manually; doing so gets a message about not having a base channel.
>
>If I go to RHN and log in, I can see my system having Management entitlement, 
>but it will not let me associate it with any base channel.
>
>Can someone explain this?  Or suggest a way to let me run up2date manually?
>
>Thanks.
>  
>
The most common causes I would say are:
- missing redhat-release package from package profile of registered 
system - typically because of corrupt rpm database OR maybe registered a 
Fedora system to RHN
- installed say a Enterprise Linux 3 ES version of redhat-release and 
have no free ES slots within RHN (ES is just an example)

RHN looks to see what version of redhat-release you have installed to 
determine what base channel to associate a system to when it registers 
to RHN.

Cliff.