warning about up2date

[Gene C.]

On Wednesday 31 March 2004 11:02, Joel Grimes wrote:
> Getting exactly this same behavior - including the Kernel update problem
> in the bug report.
>
> Gene C. wrote:
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119538
> >
> >After having the up2date problem with the kernel, I attempted to do some
> >additional installs.  I tried to install all outstanding updates but
> > up2date chocked on that (backtrace).  So I tried something small -- a2ps,
> > anaconda, anaconda-runtime and the four amanda-* packages.  Everthing
> > downloaded and the install looked fine (at first) but the install
> > progress bar did not complete even if the finish message appeared. 
> > Clicked once to get the list of installed packages and up2date said
> > everything was installed.  I then checked with rpm queries ... amanada
> > was not only not updated but it was now removed from the system.
> >
> >Caution ... do not believe up2date processing ... be sure to manually
> > check all up2dating using up2date.
>
> Message I was about to send, but you beat me to it:
>
> ######################################
> I ran up2date on a clean Test 2 install.  There's like 100 updates, so i
> try to take them 10 or so at a time.
>
> After downloading, it goes to install, but in some cases, it'll skip one
> of the downloaded updates - leaving the progress bar (bottom one) some
> distance from the end and yet it stops and enables the FINISH button.
> Which i click.  Then run it again.
>
> Second time around, one of the updates i just downloaded is still
> available for download.  So i select it again to give it another shot,
> but it never gets removed from the AVAILABLE list.
> #######################################


OK ... I now see this is related to selinux.  For now you can:

1.  Do not update with up2date (although this probably hits yum also).

or

2. Switch to permissive mode ("setenforcing 0") before you run up2date.

To see the problem, in enforcing mode, manually run rpm on a package having 
the problem (such as the kernel).
-- 
Gene