Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 53173
up2date does not work behind authentication proxy
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:51:18 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I get the following information whenever I attempt to list or update using up2date: [root@localhost rhn]# up2date -l For this beta release of Red Hat Linux, the up2date program has been configured to point to a different Red Hat Network server. This server (beta.rhns.redhat.com) can be used to obtain updated packages for the duration of this Red Hat Linux beta test ONLY. After the beta test has been completed, this Red Hat Network server will no longer be available for use. Retrieving list of all available packages... There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was: unable to set up CONNECTION tunnel I have the latest updates from jturner's web site and am fairly confident that up2date is configured correctly. rhn_register works correctly. up2date CAN determine that the machine is not entitled to do updates but cannot get the updates. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure and run rhn_register 2. Configure and run up2date with -l or -u options 3. Actual Results: No updates but can detect that entitlement is setup or not. Expected Results: up2date should list or update components Additional info:
I am also having problems from behind an authenticating firewall. The first Roswell release didn't want to let me configure a proxy. Now, with the second Roswell installed, I was able to set up the proxy and register, but I get an error when running up2date -l --nox. The last couple of lines are: Retrieving list of all available packages... There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was: host not found
These are both known, but separate, bugs. There are new packages at http://people.redhat.com/jturner/software.html . . . just grab the up2date[-gnome]-2.6.4-7.x.1 packages and see if those work out for you.
I got the packages from your directory, but they require rpm >= 4.0.3-1 and rpm-python >= 4.0.3-1. Since the latest rpm version on the BNL mirror of Rawhide is 4.0.3-0.96, where can I get this version of rpm? I can't use up2date, since it doesn't work for me yet.
Never mind the previous message. I forced the install with the --nodeps option after resolving all dependencies except the rpm and rpm-python versions. Up2date -l --nox seems to be working now. Thanks!