Hello, I have a supposedly registered RH 6 server (uname -a output: Linux xxx.domain.com 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 9 08:03:13 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
I have problems using yum on the box. When I try to get a list of packages, nothing gets returned:
#yum list available
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
Updating certificate-based repositories.
[root@xxx tmp]# yum list updates

When I try to install a package, I get an error:
[root@xxx tmp]# yum install ld-linux.so.2
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
Updating certificate-based repositories.
Setting up Install Process
No package ld-linux.so.2 available.
Error: Nothing to do

Can someone please help me resolve this issue? Thanks in advance for any help!

try:

this should tell you the actual name of the package you actually have to install.

To add to what snowpine said, since you've got a RedHat subscription, just call RedHat support...that's what you're paying them for.

#yum provides ld-linux.so.2
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
Updating certificate-based repositories.
Warning: 3.0.x versions of yum would erroneously match against filenames.
You can use "*/ld-linux.so.2" and/or "*bin/ld-linux.so.2" to get that behaviour
No Matches found

# yum provides */ld-linux.so.2
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
Updating certificate-based repositories.
No Matches found

# yum provides *bin/ld-linux.so.2
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
Updating certificate-based repositories.
No Matches found

Again, have you called RedHat?? If you're paying for a subscription, you are paying for support...call them, and they can walk you through things and answer questions.

That said, what are you trying to install??? That package is part of another package, and is in fact, a symlink to another library. Have you tried just putting in "yum install ld"??

DISCLAIMER: I am not a Red Hat 6 user!!!!

On my system:

So on Fuduntu, at least, looks like it is provided by glibc. Since you are paying Red Hat the required $299+ per year, give them a call and see if they can confirm this for their distro.

Actually, that may be the problem. Another group (at different location) was supposed to register that instance with rhn and although they confirmed doing it, it doesn't seem to be really done. I will try to get it resolved with them and hopefully that will resolve the issues with yum. What I really need to install is X Window System to get GUI enabled.

So your actual question is "How do I install X Window System in Red Hat 6?"

It goes without saying that you must be registered & connected to Red Hat Network for this operation to succeed. If yum is not seeing glibc then that is the likely explanation for the problem.

Yes, sorry. Running pretty much the command you mentioned above "yum groupinstall "X Window System" " started my path to discovering problems. I mentioned the other package as that was what I successfully installed on another server recently, and when tried on RH 6 system, failed.
What I actually should have asked was why my server doesn't boot into GUI mode, even though I selected KDE desktop package during OS installation. I had never had that problem with earlier distributions like RH 3, 4, or 5.

Try:

If it doesn't work, any error messages?

If it does work, then the question becomes, how to boot to X by default?

The answer is /etc/inittab; for GUI-by-default, it should say 5 (maybe yours says 3?) Here is the last line of my /etc/inittab file:

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Yes, mine says 3 so I can change it once I get it to work. Here is the error I get when try to run startx

[root@dhcp-172-21-126-157 ~]# startx
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.7331
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority

xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "/usr/bin/X" in PATH

Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/bin is in your path and
that "/usr/bin/X" is a program or a link to the right type of server
for your display. Possible server names include:

Xorg Common X server for most displays
Xvfb Virtual frame buffer
Xfake kdrive-based virtual frame buffer
Xnest X server nested in a window on another X server
Xephyr kdrive-based nested X server

giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.


Yes, /usr/bin is in my path:
[root@dhcp-172-21-126-157 ~]# echo $PATH
/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

The error message suggests to me that maybe Xorg has not been successfully installed? I would be curious to see the output of:

That brings us back to the problem with yum not being able to find any packages. I think I should wait until the system is registered and try again then.
Thanks snowpine!

[root@xxx ~]# yum groupinstall "X Windows System"
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
Updating certificate-based repositories.
Setting up Group Process
Warning: Group X Windows System does not exist.
No packages in any requested group available to install or update

please post the output of
that will inform you and us as to just what repos are installed and what ones are on or off

also double check the name of "X Windows System"
with

If you have root access, then
is the cmd you need, but you will need the RH subscription number ... and of course network access to the internet