Up2Date Channel

[mikec]

When running up2date i receive this message "this system may not be 
updated until it is associated with a channel. Is there any way to fix?
Thanks

[Ali-Reza Anghaie]

On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 14:07, Mike wrote:
> When running up2date i receive this message "this system may not be 
> updated until it is associated with a channel. Is there any way to fix?

You have to goto rhn.redhat.com and associate your system profile with a
given channel (e.g. Red Hat 9)...

Is this Fedora or a RHL release? -Ali

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[Adam Voigt]

You didn't try and install Ximian Desktop did you?
I got that once when I was fooling with it.

On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 14:15, Ali-Reza Anghaie wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 14:07, Mike wrote:
> > When running up2date i receive this message "this system may not be 
> > updated until it is associated with a channel. Is there any way to fix?

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Di, den 02.03.2004 schrieb Ali-Reza Anghaie um 20:15:
> On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 14:07, Mike wrote:
> > When running up2date i receive this message "this system may not be 
> > updated until it is associated with a channel. Is there any way to fix?
>
> You have to goto rhn.redhat.com and associate your system profile with a
> given channel (e.g. Red Hat 9)...
>
> Is this Fedora or a RHL release? -Ali

Please do not confuse people.

This is the fedora-list, so I guess the OP is using Fedora Core. There
is not need to register, visit rhn or something similar in fedora,
trying to register will even break the setup.

William already explained what to do, in addition I'd like to recommend 
Alexanders article @
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/

Christoph

[Ciemon G0TRT]

Same problem here Mike,

I've updated the sources file to point at a mirror; I've commented out the
up2date default line too.

To try and get updates I'm going through the GUI rather than CLI, I have to
launch up2date, which takes me to the RedHat Update Agent. Clicking forward
brings up the error screen which says "This system may not be updated until
it is associated with a channel"

Thanks for the help "so far" guys.

Ciemon

[William Hooper]

Ciemon G0TRT said:
> Same problem here Mike,
>
> I've updated the sources file to point at a mirror; I've commented out the
> up2date default line too.

Double check that...
> To try and get updates I'm going through the GUI rather than CLI, I have
> to
> launch up2date, which takes me to the RedHat Update Agent. Clicking
> forward
> brings up the error screen which says "This system may not be updated
> until
> it is associated with a channel"

If it still gives you the error, check to make sure the
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date file has "useRhn" set to "no"

[Ciemon G0TRT]

Thanks William!
> > I've updated the sources file to point at a mirror; I've commented out
>
> the
> > up2date default line too.
>
> Double check that...

I saw the first instance in sources, which was commented out, assumed that
was the only one. Of course, it wasn't, commenting out the second appears to
have worked.
> If it still gives you the error, check to make sure the
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date file has "useRhn" set to "no"

Couldn't find that, but it doesn't matter now.

Thanks again.. Ciemon

[William Hooper]

Mike said:
> When running up2date i receive this message "this system may not be
> updated until it is associated with a channel. Is there any way to fix?
> Thanks

Comment out the "up2date default" line in your /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
file and don't run rhn_register again.  While you are editing the sources
file you probably want to set it up to use a mirror.