Bug 36538

Summary:	up2date can't determine Linux version
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Frank Wise <macmhuirich>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	6.2	CC:	srevivo
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Description Frank Wise 2001-04-18 19:05:02 UTC

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After installing the up2date packages, the next run of up2date failed
saying, "There was a fatal RPM error.  The message was:  couldn't determine
what version of Red Hat Linux you are running."

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install the new up2date packages
2.  run up2date
3.
	

Actual Results:  Error display as described above

Expected Results:  up2date should produce list of available updates.

Comment 1 Jay Turner 2001-04-18 19:31:39 UTC

If you have upgraded from rpm-3.0.X to rpm-4.0.X, then you are going to want to
run 'rpm --rebuilddb' in order to get your database rebuilt in the correct
format.  This should take care of the problem.