From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: While retrieving package kernel-uml-2.4.18-19.8.0i686.rpm, the following error appears repeatedly and halts the upgrade: There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was: File Not Found: r-e-d.a Error Message: Package not found Error Class Code: 17 Error Class Info: File not found. Explanation: An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem persists please submit a bug report to rhn-help. If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and details on how to reproduce this problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: This is the first update since installation of RedHat Linux Pro 8.0. 1.Red exclamation ball in system tray. 2.Execute up2date. 3.180 files reprted as needing to be updated. 4.All kernel files are reported as not flagged for update. 5.All kernal files are selected and Forward button is pushed. 6.All 180 files are selected and Forward buton is pushed. 7.RPM interdepencies are resolved and packages are being retrieved. 8.Error box appears. Actual Results: Pressed OK button and stop. Expected Results: Software updates complete. Additional info: Following error appears repeatedly and halts the upgrade: There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was: File Not Found: r-e-d.a Error Message: Package not found Error Class Code: 17 Error Class Info: File not found. Explanation: An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem persists please submit a bug report to rhn-help. If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and details on how to reproduce this problem.
I have the same problem. So I tried to update the kernel one at a time and was left with the update to kernel-uml 2.4.18-19.8.0 which causes the r-e-d.a file not found bug.
I have also gotten this error and got past it by excluding kernel-uml 2.4.18-19.8.0
I have the same situation as David McCaffrey in comment #2. I skipped the kernel-uml 2.4.18-19.8.0 and completed the rest of the updates. The Alert Notification Tool says I still need to download this but all the other updates are installed and working so I am just ignoring it. I would appreciated being notified when/if this is fixed.
Hi I have installed RH 9 and had a similar problem with the gtkhtml-1.1.9-0.9.src.rpm - I have made a similar adjustment to the download as per comment 3 but I would like a fix. Thanks Ash
This typically indicates a server error. There were a few src rpms that went missing from the server that should now be fixed.
Having the same problem with redhat 9 with the following packages... gdm, krb5-devel, krb5-libs, mutt, nfs-utils, perl... I've given up at this point. Any fix would be appreciated.
I had the samr problem with RedHat 9 while trying to update tcltk-8.3.5-88.src.rpm There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was: File Not Found: r-e-d.a Error Message: Invalid RPM package tcltk-8.3.5-88.src.rpm requested Error Class Code: 17 Error Class Info: File not found. Explanation: An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com. If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and details on how to reproduce this problem.
I've had the same problems as in comment #7 except for a considerable number of files. The last to fail was gdm-2.4.1.3-5.1.src.rpm. Prior to that was anything related to php, up2date, bash, and so on. After spending untold number of hours I finally gave up.
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RHL 9 (unsupported)