Re: Up2date failure ?

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:19, Kern, Thomas wrote:
> I was running up2date trying to get down about two weeks of updates.
> At one point in while it was installing some packages, my ssh session
> got terminated. When I was able to get back in on the virtual machine
> console (s390 platform), the ssh session and up2date had completely
> terminated. I decided to reboot the system and clean out
> /var/spool/up2date to try for a CLEAN process. Now, everytime I try
> any up2date command other than --configure, I get this:
> 
>  
> [root@lnxrh00 rhn]# up2date --show-channels
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1150, in ?
>     sys.exit(main() or 0)
>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 642, in main
>     up2dateAuth.updateLoginInfo()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 137, in
> updateLoginInfo
>     loginInfo = login()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 104, in
> login
>     maybeUpdateVersion()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 51, in
> maybeUpdateVersion
>     systemVer = up2dateUtils.getVersion()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 205, in
> getVersion
>     release, version = getOSVersionAndRelease()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 198, in
> getOSVersionAndRelease
>     raise up2dateErrors.RpmError(
> up2date_client.up2dateErrors.RpmError: RPM error.  The message was:
> Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running.
> If you get this error, try running
> 
>                 rpm --rebuilddb

Is redhat-release installed? Or rather does rpm think it's installed?

# rpm -q redhat-release

-- 
Chris Kloiber
Red Hat, Inc.


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