RHEL 4: problem installing OpenManage Server Administrator with up2date

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:46:48PM -0400, Kevin Eberman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> > >
> > > [root at lin3860 ~]# uname -a
> > > Linux lin3860 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:30:39 EST 2005 i686
> i686
> > > i386 GNU/Linux
> > > [root at lin3860 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant)
> > 
> > gold release. I dont think I've ever tested with anything that old.
> > Probably a bug there.
> 
> The installation is off the CDs that came with the server.
> 
> > 
> > Well, these URLs are correct. You can cut and paste them into a web
> > browser to see. The up2date version in gold rhel4 is ancient, and may
> > have broken yum support. Can you upgrade at least up2date to something
> a
> > bit more recent to see if that works?
> > 
> 
> I started over with a clean install from CD.  Then ran up2date and
> updated the OS as follows:
> 
> 
> [root at lin3860 rhn]# uname -a
> Linux lin3860 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:30:39 EST 2005 i686 i686
> i386 GNU/Linux
> [root at lin3860 rhn]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 5)
> [root at lin3860 rhn]# rpm -qa | grep up2
> up2date-4.5.5-7.el4

Good.

> Next, I ran wget -q -O -
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
> 
> Everything ran okay, and both the indep and specific packages installed.

Good.

> I than ran up2date -i srvadmin-all and it found the package. Hooray, I
> thought, but the install stalled (failed to progress while downloading
> packages).  I killed the update and tried to run it again, but got my
> old un-friend: 

:(

Can you remove disk cache files and see if it fixes itself?

rm /var/spool/up2date/*

I'm actually starting to get annoyed at the caching that up2date (and to
some extent yum) does.

> 
> The following packages you requested were not found:
> srvadmin-all
> 
> complete output:
> 
> [root at lin3860 ~]# up2date -ivv srvadmin-all
> D: logininfo: {'X-RHN-Server-Id': 1007652846, 'X-RHN-Auth-Server-Time':
> '1183751091.33', 'X-RHN-Auth': '/y5VCld6+NVcXxv1YX6s2g==',
> 'X-RHN-Auth-Channels': [['rhel-i386-es-4', '20070627091153', '1', '1']],
> 'X-RHN-Auth-User-Id': '', 'X-RHN-Auth-Expire-Offset': '3600.0'}
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl?osname=el4&basearch=i386&
> repo_config=$repo_config&dellsysidpluginver=$dellsysidpluginver

This is a good URL.

> using mirror:
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/platform_independent/rh40

Good.

> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/mirrors.pl?sys_ven_id=0x1028&sys_dev
> _id=0x01E6&osname=el4&basearch=i386&repo_config=$repo_config&dellsysidpl
> uginver=up2date

Good.

> using mirror:
> http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/system.ven_0x1028.dev_0x01e6/
> rh40

Good.

--
Michael