Bug 26214
Summary: | up2date fails on headless RH7 w/o x | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <jthompson> |
Component: | up2date | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.0 | CC: | srevivo |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-02-20 01:33:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2001-02-05 21:08:28 UTC
1. The up2date server was down temporarily. This accounts for your connection refused errors. 2. The problems with anonymous registration are fixed with up2date 2.1.7, available at updates.redhat.com. We recommend that you upgrade as indicated at http://www.redhat.com/errata. 3. Anonymous registration is not nearly as useful as a real RHN registration. Use the "rhn_register" program to complete registration. I have applied the patches you recommened even though I had to use --force to get them to install. I am still having the same problem. I have an identical machine as my development workstation which has x installed and it works perfectly. In fact, it's updating as we speak. For some reason up2date seems to depend on X in a headless install. Both boxes are accessable via console and ssh. I can forward the x via ssh and up2date works fine. However, it still doesn't connect with you folks on the box WITHOUT x. That is the ONLY difference between the 2 boxes. They have been kept identical on purpose. I forgot to add that rhn_register doesn't work either. I know that it's not a problem with my network connectivity because I can use this server to telnet, ssh, ftp, etc. in to box on my network and out on the internet. I should probably also mention that most unnecssary RPM's were uninstalled and if you like I can send you a spreadsheet showing you what is still active. The next versions of up2date include a `--nox` option, that will tell the client not to attempt to use X regardless of the setting of DISPLAY, or otherwise. This option is available for `up2date`, and `rhn_register`, so it should solve this problem. There is also better handling of the cases where it looks like everything is setup for the use of X, but attaching to the X server fails (ie, a bogus DISPLAY setting is a good example). Assigned QA to jturner if your DISPLAY variable is set, up2date, rhn_register, and other programs (emacs) that support X will believe it and try to work with X. If you don't actually have X installed, then you should make sure that this variable is unset. You can use the --nox option available in the rawhide version as well; we will be releasing official stable errata shortly that includes this option. Until then, make sure your DISPLAY variable is not set. Code in CVS right now which makes this process a lot less painful. Am able to ssh into a machine which does not have X of any sort installed, and then issue up2date command line without any problems. Code in CVS right now which makes this process a lot less painful. Am able to ssh into a machine which does not have X of any sort installed, and then issue up2date command line without any problems. |