Re: It's not working...

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 11:37, Lawrence MacIntyre wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I got a RH7.3 machine configured with current 1.4.2.  The distribution
> and updates are on an nfs-mounted disk.  I manually updated the up2date
> and rhn .rpms, configured it to use localhost as the server, and ran
> up2date.  It showed me the kernel rpms that required updates, I selected
> them, then it showed me all of the other rpms that required updates, I
> selected them, then it said "internal server error" and exited.  So I
> tried again, and only told it to update abiword.  That worked.  So then
> I tried again and told it to update bind, bind-devel, bind-utils, and
> ethereal-gnome (which was going to have a dependency {ethereal and
> ucd-snmp}).  I got the same internal server error death.  Then I tried
> just bind, bind-devel, and bind-utils.  That worked.  Then I tried just
> ethereal gnome.  I found the two dependencies and installed them. 
> 
> I can't detect a pattern here (and I don't know python), so I must ask
> for help.  There are a log of messages in the apache error_log and one
> in the current.log file, so I'm including them.
> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
> Lawrence MacIntyre <[email protected]>
> Oak Ridge National Laboratory
> ----
> 

Probably could have done without the entirety of that log file.

The first error is that you have rhnsd running, and current doesn't
support rhnsd. Either turn rhnsd off on your clients, or ignore the
error - its harmless to both the server and the client.

The second is you have bogus permissions on your rpm and database files,
and so current (running as the user apache runs as, which is typically
'apache') can't read them.

Fix your permissions, and restart httpd.


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