Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 150141
up2date problem with upgrading from RHEL 4 beta
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:16 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 Description of problem: We have a system installed with RHEL 4 (beta). I want to upgrade it to the GA version. I'm trying to use up2date. But the up2date registration is not providing a proper RHN channel. The rhn.redhat.com is showing a channel of NONE. And the panels do not allow me to change it to a valid channel. [root@konkur rhn]# up2date -l This system may not be updated until it is associated with a channel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.3.38-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start with a RHEL4 beta installation system. 2. up2date --register 3. up2date -l Actual Results: The up2date (RHN) does not seem to recoginize the beta version of RHEL4 and so does not register a proper channel. [root@konkur rhn]# up2date -l This system may not be updated until it is associated with a channel. Expected Results: The system should be registered as RHEL 4 beta channel. Additional info: If there is some other way to upgrade the system, I'd be glad to use it.
Do you have any free entitlements to register the machine under? I suspect you're seeing the case where you don't have any free entitlements, therefore the website can't associate the machine with a base channel. Go to this page on the RHN website to confirm: https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/channels/entitlements.pxt
Delete your old profile in RHN, make sure you have proper version of redhat-release (not Beta one), then run: up2date --register
is this resolved with final release?
Sorry, but the whole point of this request was to be able to UPGRADE from the beta to the GA version of RHEL4 using the RedHat Network (up2date). I guess you're telling me that it can't be done.
Two different things going on here. First, upgrading from a beta to a final release is never supported. There's just too much "funny stuff" which happens in the betas to guarantee that it's going to work. That having been said (and the second issue) your original report is that you can't get the machine to join the RHEL4 official channel. That has nothing to do with you having the beta currently installed. Instead that's a factor of whether you have any valid entitlements to register a machine to the official channel. So pull up the webpage I mentioned in comment 1 and see if you have any available entitlements to the official channel. If you do, then you should be able join the machine to the channel.
We have plenty of entitlements to the official channels. But the beta version could not be recognized as RHEL4. And it would not let me manually change it. I have long ago re-installed with the GA code, so you can close this bug. Thanks, Janet Smith