up2date not respond / trying to rebuild rpm database
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up2date not respond / trying to rebuild rpm database
I am trying to run Red Hat's up2date, but it just keeps hanging up and freezing. It also hangs up or freezes when i just click the alert icon. I know how to use it some what because I have red hat on my lap top too but i am kinda new to the harder stuff. It kept haning up so first I went to red hat and just FTP all the new updates to my up2date spool. That got me a little farther in the update process but now it still hangs at the retrieving file stage. So then i read up on it and red hat recommened rebuilding the data base. So I followed there directions:
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To fix this problem, run the following commands as root:
* kill all RPM processes (rhn_check, up2date, rpm, rhn-applet):
$ ps -axwww | grep rhn_check
In the list of processes, the first number on each line is the PID. For all PIDs listed except for the one associated with grep:
$ kill -9 <PID>
Repeat the above steps for each of the programs listed.
hmmm.... if you reinstalled (using rh9, right?) then you need to upgrade your up2date packages before you can use them. this thread here has a detailed instructions on what to do. although i'm still waiting to hear back from the last guy there.
Thanks for you help everyone but that didn't even work. To get it to work i went to red hat, and downloaded all the updates through an ftp, then installed them manually. Then after that i updated the kernal manually. Now RHN seems to be working.
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