Bug 101053

Summary: rhn applet reports already installed kernel update needed when new update available for other components
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Russell Johns <johns>
Component: rhn-appletAssignee: Adrian Likins <alikins>
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Description Russell Johns 2003-07-28 20:13:55 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030716

Description of problem:

Since the posting of the kernel-smp-2.4.20-18.8 package (and subsequent updating
and rebooting) when new updates are released for other components the Redhat
network alert notification tool will add  the kernel-smp package to the list of
needed updates, showing matching versions for currently installed and available.
 it adds the kernel 
(plain vanilla non SMP ) package less frequently.

I would estimate that the kernel-smp package was displayed with about 2/3 of the
subsequent updates, the both the SMP and non smp kernels were displayed with
about half of subsequent updates .

the actual up2date functionality appears to work fine,  and does not list the
kernel as needing the update. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhn-applet-2.0.9-0.8.0.1

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.wait for needed updates icon on gnome panel
2.view list of needed updates.
3.kernel-smp package will be erroneously displayed with other updates
    

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Comment 1 Russell Johns 2003-07-30 00:13:10 UTC
Created attachment 93241 [details]
Screen shot of erroneous behavior