FC4: Unnecessary network "noise"? [SOLVED]

Antti J. Huhtala ahuhtal4 at welho.com
Thu Aug 18 20:13:55 UTC 2005


On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:18:02 -0400 (EDT) "William Hooper"
<whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:

Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
> Sorry again. I ought to have said: "up2date complains about my
> 'subscription not being activated' because 'one of the three Red Hat
> registration steps were not completed'".

I would wager that this is rhn-applet complaining, not up2date.  The
rhn-applet is broken in FC4 because of lack of repomd support.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160873

You'd win. I did both google and read Bugzilla headers about this but
there was no direct reference to my problem.

I bet if you close the rhn-applet your traffic goes away, too.

You win again. It did, indeed! Whew...

> I don't know which step, but there
> it is... I realise now Red Hat registration and Red Hat Network
> registration (if the latter _did_ exist) are two different things.

The point you are missing is that no form of registration is needed to
get
updates.  The fact you are prompted to register when clicking the
rhn-applet is a bug.

-- 
William Hooper

I've been able to update disregarding whether my registration was in
order or not. Anyway, my problem is SOLVED! Thanks a lot, Bill!

Antti




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