Re: RH5 Boxes not updateing..

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Johnson Steven wrote:

> This is failing again, this time on the firefox security update from 
> June 25th.. According to RPM I am at the latest version, but RHN tells 
> me I need to update, so I queue it up for an update and then run 
> rhn_check and rhn_check tells me the latest is already installed, and 
> then I get the red ! on RHN's web page again with the same package 
> needing updated..
>
> Before this was only happening on RHEL5, now I am seeing it on RHEL4 and 
> 5.. the 'yum clean all' isn't working this time...  Any ideas?
>
> Also should I not be using rhn_check?  I see others use yum instead.. is 
> there a big difference?

Hi,

Does 'rhn-profile-sync' help your situation?

Running rhn_check is okay, but there are so many bugs with the RHN 
interaction and scheduling, 'yum' is probably your best tool in this case.

daryl