Re: Please let me know the steps in breif to upgradetoRHELAS3 Update6.

Also, looks like there is no change in the kernel version number being
displayed.

[oracle@bangpcrh32 Disk1]$ uname -a
Linux bangpcrh32 2.4.21-20.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 20:46:40 EDT 2004 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Please suggest,

Thanks

On 5/8/06, unix syzadmin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot.  I could upgrade RHEL AS 3 Update 3 to Update 6
>
> The following steps were necessary.
> 1. Downloaded & Installed yum.
> 2. Installed apache.
> 3 Copied all the .rpm's, from all the RedHat U6 CD's to one of the folders
> in the apache docroot.
> 4 Ran yum-arch
> 5 Updated the /etc/yum.conf, to provide the URL for U6 packages.
> 6 Ran yum -y update.
>
> I got the following error at the end though:
> Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader
> Lilo found - adding kernel to lilo and making it the default
> rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
> error: db4 error(-30982) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error,
> run database recovery
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30982)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On 5/5/06, Sharpe, Sam J <sam.sharpe-AQ/[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [email protected]
> > > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Inaki Sanchez
> > > > Sent: 05 May 2006 11:31
> > > > To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
> > > > Subject: Re: Please let me know the steps in breif to upgrade
> > > > toRHELAS3 Update6.
> > > >
> > > > Boot the server with the first CD of U6, start the installation
> > > > process and select "Upgrade an existing system"
> > > > Alternatively, you can setup a yum repository with the U6
> > > CD's, point
> > > > the server to it and upgrade with "yum -y update"
> > >
> > > ... After first installing Yum which is not part of the
> > > Redhat Default...
> > >
> > > You could however create a yum repo and add it to
> > > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources at which point you could do
> > > "up2date -uf" to force an upgrade.
> >
> > The following also looks handy (from /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources)... I've
> >
> > never noticed it before:
> >
> > ### A local directory full of packages (a "dir" repo). For example:
> > #dir my-favorite-rpms /var/spool/RPMS/
> >
> > --
> > Sam
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