From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) up2date does not recognize my system and fails to run. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: up2date -l Actual Results: [root@localhost src]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.2.16-22 #1 Mon Jan 15 13:18:44 EET 2001 i686 unknown [root@localhost src]# up2date -l Retrieving list of all available packages... There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was: Invalid Architecture and OS release combination [root@localhost src]# System is RedHat7.0, up2date-2.1.7-1
please do an rpm -qi redhat-release and attach output here.
[twillber@innostunutsonni ~]$ rpm -qi redhat-release Name : redhat-release Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 7.0.1J Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 1 Build Date: Tue 24 Oct 2000 03:10:38 AM EEST Install date: Thu 15 Feb 2001 01:58:07 AM EET Build Host: porkchop.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: redhat-release-7.0.1J-1.src.rpm Size : 40 License: GPL Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : The Red Hat Linux release file. Description : The Red Hat Linux release file, which identifies which release of Red Hat Linux you're running. [twillber@innostunutsonni ~]$
Adrian, please make sure the server understands and accepts this as an alias for 7.
The same happens for me on RH 6.2 with all updates using the new up2date: [jade@dev jade]$ rpm -qi up2date redhat-release Name : up2date Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.5.3 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 0.6.x Build Date: Fri 13 Apr 2001 11:23:36 AM PDT Install date: Fri 13 Apr 2001 02:32:39 PM PDT Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: up2date-2.5.3-0.6.x.src.rpm Size : 536146 License: GPL Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : Automatically update RPMs for a Red Hat Linux System Description : The Red Hat Update Agent automatically queries the Red Hat Network servers and figures out what packages need to be updated on your box. Name : redhat-release Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 6.2 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 1 Build Date: Wed 08 Mar 2000 02:49:24 PM PST Install date: Mon 02 Oct 2000 08:25:33 AM PDT Build Host: porkchop.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: redhat-release-6.2-1.src.rpm Size : 33 License: GPL Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : Red Hat Linux release file Description : Red Hat Linux release file [jade@dev jade]$ uname -a Linux dev 2.2.17-14 #1 Mon Feb 5 18:48:50 EST 2001 i686 unknown Error message: There was a fatal RPM error. The message was: Couldn't determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are using.
We still don't have a Japanese updates tree, so that means that we are serving out English updates which would be detrimental to a Japanese installation. So, need to determine the way to deal with this.