I don't understand that comment. Red Hat Linux end-of-life dates were announced around October 2002, if memory serves correctly. At the time Red Hat Linux 9 was published, it was clear the errata support period would end one year later in April 2004 [unless Red Hat chose to extend the support].

Find here a somewhat recent thread that should answer your question:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=110206

Hi,

Like the rest of the gang I'm having trouble with the up2date stuff.

Got this message...

cant access /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date

a few times even using this option..

wget -q -O - https://rhn.redhat.com/help/new-cert.sh | /bin/bash

although it did give the message it was updating.

Should I be concerned?

Did you run the wget command as "root" user?
What do you get upon running "ls -la /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date"?

At the root command line I get..

Input/Output error.

I am shown that I have 60 updates to get but when I click on the button to do it, zip happens.

Thanks

I don't whether that was supposed to answer my two question. You must be able to view the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date file, because it's your up2date config file. If you're unable to view it as "root", you have a serious problem. You should not get an I/O error.

As another step, try something else. Open an X terminal, such as "xterm" and run "up2date --nox -u" in there. What do you get?

Sorry.. Yes I am in root as root user and initiated the command you suggested but that was the result.

I have looked for xterm but cannot see it. I am using KDE and Gnome GUI interfaces.

With KDE or GNOME you can run konsole or gnome-terminal instead of xterm. If need be, start it via the ALT+F2 "Run Command" box and not via menus.

cat /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date should give you the output of the config file. I don't understand at all where you get an input/output error. That could indicate harddisk corruption.

go to the redhat network and setup an account there. MAybe you need a different username

Hi,

Okay, I used the command cat /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date and got..

cat: /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date: Input/output error.

I will look into opening a new account as well, altho' I think this is a sw problem.

I also d/l the up2date progs again just in case one was corrupted but I still get the same result..

App not located up2date blah App up2date gnome

I run the command in the root dir and the 2 progs (up2date and up2date gnome) are there also so I don't know why it can't see them.

Thanks.

It's a hardware problem or damaged file-system. "cat" would simply print the file contents, even if the file were empty. It's a plain text config file. See whether you've got kernel errors in /var/log/messages.

Hi,

I checked the messages file and looked at the last 3, 4 days and there was no error mentioned anywhere.

I looked in the rhn dir and the only up2date file there was a key signature file.

is this where is supposed to be a config file ?
I have also now noticed that the up2date button on my desktop has now gone since i have been trying to update.

The last thing it said was 60 updates, no ignores but when I tried to update, zip happened.

Any more ideas ?

Hi,

BTW I now have the button back and it shows me the 61 files available but tells me Iu should update up2date first.

I managed to get the new cert down and ran up2date up2date and got this..

[root@LinuxBox root]# wget -q -O - https://rhn.redhat.com/help/new-cert.sh | /bin/bash
The file /usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT has already been updated.
No further action is necessary.
[root@LinuxBox root]# up2date up2date
warning: can't access /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configdlg.py", line 220, in finish
if self.writeValues(button):
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configdlg.py", line 204, in writeValues
dlg = gnome.ui.GnomeErrorDialog(_(
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'GnomeErrorDialog'
There was some sort of I/O error: [Errno 5] Input/output error: '/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date'
[root@LinuxBox root]#

Run "up2date --configure".

you may want to try it from a command line


up2date -u

I used to use that all the time since my computer has no monitor and stuff. Now it is setup to update automagically.

Thanks guys but..

Tried both of the commands and got the same result.

First the message..

warning: can't access /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date

then a GUI panel come up 'RedHat Network Configuration with three tab option at top.

General..
The only auto filled in box is this ..Select RH Server option : https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC

Retrieval ..
Only ticked items.. Do not upgrade packs when local config file has been modified
Use GPG to verify pak
Pak storage dir: /var/spool/up2date

Packages Exceptions
kernel*

When I click this I get the same few errro lines that was in my previous post, exactly.

I went to the var/spool dir ans there are two text files there..
Redhat-Linux 8 with a bunch of numbers and the saem with (obsulate) in the name and same numbers.

I also unticked the ''Do not upgrade packs when local config file has been modified', but still got the same message.

BTW.
I am doing this in root using the Root Console Konsole.
Both new update files are in /root

Thanks again.. hope this helps..