Red Hat Network Up2Date problem

Hi,

The up2date icon on my task bar (system tray?) is telling me there are 6 updates to be had (0 ignored).  But when I run the app it, after querying the servers, it tells me that my system is up2date (sorry couldn't resist).  This has been going on for several weeks (if not months).

Any one know why?  Or how to resolve this issue?

Thanks,
Neil Derraugh

[Mark Haney]

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 09:58, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The up2date icon on my task bar (system tray?) is telling me there are 6 updates to be had (0 ignored).  But when I run the app it, after querying the servers, it tells me that my system is up2date (sorry couldn't resist).  This has been going on for several weeks (if not months).
>
> Any one know why?  Or how to resolve this issue?

Double click on the alert icon and it will tell you what updates it sees
that need to be applied.  I had this very problem and the reason I was
seeing it was because I had YUM repositories in yum.conf but not in
rhn-sources so there was a conflict.

You can also run 'yum check-update' and that might also show you the
updates you need.

HTH.

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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
InterAct Public Safety Systems
[e-mail]
Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 
10:00:36 up 1:55, 2 users, load average: 1.19, 1.50, 1.61

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 31.08.2004 schrieb Mark Haney um 16:02:
> Double click on the alert icon and it will tell you what updates it sees
> that need to be applied.  I had this very problem and the reason I was
> seeing it was because I had YUM repositories in yum.conf but not in
> rhn-sources so there was a conflict.
>
> You can also run 'yum check-update' and that might also show you the
> updates you need.
> Mark Haney

The tools yum and up2date are acting totally independent from each
other.

Alexander

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 31.08.2004 schrieb [e-mail] um 15:58:
> The up2date icon on my task bar (system tray?) is telling me there are 6 updates to be had (0 ignored).  But
> when I run the app it, after querying the servers, it tells me that my system is up2date (sorry couldn't resist).
> This has been going on for several weeks (if not months).
> Neil Derraugh

That is an frequently discussed issue here on the list. Did you search
the list for answers? That should be first before asking.

Anyway, which servers do you use with up2date and which updates are
claimed to be pending (one single left mouse click in the RHN
notification applet brings up a window with list of available update
packages)?

Alexander

[Jim Cornette]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The up2date icon on my task bar (system tray?) is telling me there are 6 updates to be had (0 ignored).  But when I run the app it, after querying the servers, it tells me that my system is up2date (sorry couldn't resist).  This has been going on for several weeks (if not months).
>
> Any one know why?  Or how to resolve this issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Neil Derraugh

Several reasons can cause the updates available on the notification and 
no updates found when running up2date. One reason is if you use yum and 
the repostories selected are not as up2date as the main repository or 
selected repositories within the config file.
Another reason is that the mirror selection utility finds the fastest 
mirrors or just randomly selects mirrors. If it selects the fastest, 
this would be less congested because of the programs available are 
behind current, maybe a day or two behind.
A reason could also be that the archetecture of programs that you 
installed are a different archetecture than the rpms you installed. This 
could happen if you compiled a program for your arcetecture and a newer 
version is now available.
If you click on the panel icon, a screen should apear were you can see 
what programs are said to be available.

A feature of up2date that prevents downloading and installing the wrong 
archetecture rpm is that it will not select, download and install a 
different archetecture rpm, this prevents snafus with critical rpms that 
are i686 and different archs. If it did not have this care, things could 
get messy.
The applet shows packages that might be newer than the one installed and 
comes in handy if you compile from src rpms. You can download the 
source, compile, then install the newer versions in your preferred arch 
type.

Also, if you want to ignore these hangng around packages appearing in 
the norification applet, you can move these programs to your ignore 
packages area on the screen that pops up when you click on the icon.

I hope this helps out a bit.

Jim