From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: I get the following error when trying to run up2date: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@arrakis root]# up2date Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 20, in ? from up2date_client import rpcServer File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 10, in ? import up2dateAuth File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 6, in ? import rpmSource File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 11, in ? import up2dateUtils File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 15, in ? import rpmUtils File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmUtils.py", line 261, in ? rpm_version = getRpmVersion() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmUtils.py", line 257, in getRpmVersion raise up2dateErrors.RpmError("Couldn't determine what version of rpm you are running.\nIf you get this error, try running \n\n\t\trpm --rebuilddb\n\n") up2date_client.up2dateErrors.RpmError: RPM error. The message was: Couldn't determine what version of rpm you are running. If you get this error, try running rpm --rebuilddb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the instructions, I run rpm --rebuilddb --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@arrakis root]# rpm --rebuilddb [root@arrakis root]# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I then try up2date again and get the same result as before Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run up2date 2. 3. Actual Results: See Description Additional info:
Can you send me the output of: rpm -q --what-provides redhat-release and: rpm -q redhat-release
er, make that: rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release (ie, no dash in whatprovides)
Please close this. I reinstalled Redhat 8 to resolve the problem. I cannot, therefore, provide the additional information requested. Sorry.