Let me know how to upgrade RHEL 6.6 to RHEL 6.7...

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Hi everyone,

Can I explain detail of my issue as below?
My sistuation is that RHEL 6.6 has run at my site and I want to upgrade it to RHEL 6.7 as soon as possbile.
I retrived package to upgrade from RHEL 6.6 to RHEL 6.7 on the paclage dataqbase on this customer support site. Although I have not found any packages yet.
Therefore I need informtion to upgrade RHEL 6.6 to 6.7. Any information is helpful for me. Dcoument name whcih has information of the upgrade, package name is aslo welcome.

Thank you.

fc
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Robert Krátký's picture Red Hat Guru 3240 points
20 January 2015 9:46 AM

Hi,

RHEL 6.7 has not yet been released -- not even in Beta. When it is released, it should be possible to upgrade using yum.

Could you please share what 'upgrade package' you refer to?

Radek Bíba's picture Red Hat Guru 1517 points
20 January 2015 9:47 AM

Hi,

RHEL 6.7 has not been released yet. What kind of "package to upgrade from RHEL 6.6 to RHEL 6.7" did you retrieve?

If you want to try the Beta, you will need to enable the beta channels in RHN for your system.

The upgrade itself is a matter of "yum update". No special package is needed.

Radek

fc Newbie 15 points
20 January 2015 11:17 AM

Hi,
I appresiate your important information very much. : )
Let me follow up my previous comment.
I wrote the vesion number was 6.7 according to my administrator talk, then I will ensure the number after this chat.
Therefore I would like to make sure how to upgrade RHEL 6.6 beta by "yum" command.
Would you let me know that?
I supporse how to upgrade RHEL 6.6 beta with performing "yum" command as below, If I do so, does my machine have to connect to the internet network?
1. Get RHEL 6.6 archive and install it.
2. Perform "yum" command under RHEL 6.6 running
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (host name)
# yum check-update
The list of available updates for my machine is displayed.
# yum update
Information with download size and so on si displayed.
Press "Y" and Enter.
# reboot
After rebooted, I will ensure the version number updated.
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7(host name)

Above command seaquences are my supporsed one. My understanding is as what you mean or not.

Thank you for cooperation....

Robert Krátký's picture Red Hat Guru 3240 points
20 January 2015 11:47 AM

Hi,

I suggest that you contact Red Hat's customer support in Japan. I am sure they will be able to help you better. Please, see Contacting Customer Service (for Japan, it is: 0120-266-668, customerservice-jp@redhat.com).

Still, I will attempt to answer you questions:

  1. It is not currently possible to upgrade to RHEL 6.7. RHEL 6.7 is not available.
  2. Internet connection is not required for yum, provided that you have an installation media set up as a repository. To do that, see How to create local repository of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7 using DVD iso for update or installation?
Akemi Yagi's picture Guru 2404 points
20 January 2015 3:05 PM

新井さん

日本語でのヘルプでしたら、先のアドバイスを参考にされるのが良いかと思います。もしこのセッションでのサポートをと言われるのでしたら、できるだけお手伝いさせていただきます。

さて upgrade というのは RHEL6.6 beta から RHEL6.6 へのことでしょうか。

それとももしかして RHEL6.7 は実は RHEL7.0 のことでしょうか。6.7 のリリースはまだまだ先のはなしですが、いま現在 RHEL6.6 を使っておられるなら、yum update のコマンドで 6.7 へ移行できるはずです。

R. Hinton's picture Guru 6827 points
20 January 2015 4:47 PM

Akemi, RHEL 6.6 is available and it is not in beta, contact customer service, see previous posts

Akemi Yagi's picture Guru 2404 points
20 January 2015 5:06 PM

I'm not the original submitter. :)

Trying to help him in Japanese. He mentions RHEL 6.6beta, so I made some wild guesses as to what he is going to achieve.

Akemi Yagi's picture Guru 2404 points
20 January 2015 5:11 PM

And I, too, recommended that he follow the advice (of contacting support in .jp).

fc Newbie 15 points
21 January 2015 12:34 AM

Hi,
Thank you ,Akemi and Robert. Your information is very helpful for me. I will contact the customer support ".JP" to solve my issue.
Finally I want to say thank you very much again. : )

SR Community Member 50 points
11 February 2015 3:01 PM

Hello,

I performed a Redhat Linux upgrade from 6.0 to 6.6 and everything went well.

When I check the redhat version redhat-release it shows 6.6 but at reboot and during the startup the redhat version shown is 6.0 .

How is it possible ? Did I miss something ? and what should I do to change that ?

Regards

Radek Bíba's picture Red Hat Guru 1517 points
11 February 2015 3:34 PM

Hi Salah,

Where exactly during the startup do you see "6.0". The only place I can think of is the GRUB menu, which most likely still contains the 6.0 kernel. That shouldn't be the default kernel, though. Please elaborate.

Radek

james.radtke@siriusxm.com's picture Guru 6863 points
11 February 2015 6:17 PM

I wonder: does Plymouth have a static version in the output, or is dynamic?

It sounds like Salah is referring to the plymouth output during startup.

SR Community Member 50 points
11 February 2015 3:45 PM

Hello,

It is shown after the bar finish loading at the bottom right .

And no ,I changed the default to 0 in the grub file .

Here is my grub file .

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.32-504.el6.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-504.el6.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_ismail1-lv_ro
ot rd_LVM_LV=vg_ismail1/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_ismail1/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD
rd_NO_DM LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=fr
-latin9 rhgb quiet crashkernel=auto
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-504.el6.i686.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.32-300.32.3.el6uek.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-300.32.3.el6uek.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_ismai
l1-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_ismail1/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_ismail1/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS
rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEY
TABLE=fr-latin9 rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-300.32.3.el6uek.i686.img

I am doubting that something or some config file that I should modify , I'm not sure what it is .

Regards

Radek Bíba's picture Red Hat Guru 1517 points
11 February 2015 5:23 PM

Interesting. Could you run 'lsb_release -a'? And also "rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release".

james.radtke@siriusxm.com's picture Guru 6863 points
11 February 2015 7:49 PM

It is shown after the bar finish loading at the bottom right .

I believe that functionality (the "progress bar") is being provided by Plymouth. What I am uncertain of is where Plymouth retrieves that information. I believe that is likely /etc/redhat-release. You can see which files are provided using

rpm -ql redhat-release-server-6Server
cat /etc/*-release*
stat /etc/redhat-release

the release-cpe file has : delimited format.

I think you should be able to re-install the redhat-release-server-6Server package and not cause any issues.

EDIT: I think I just determined that it likely NOT read from a file when Plymouth runs. If you reboot back to an older Kernel (one that was at 6.5) the Plymouth output then says 6.5 - which makes me wonder whether dracut creates the files with that value statically assigned at the time the dracut was created? So, in summary - I'm lost ;-)

SR Community Member 50 points
11 February 2015 6:34 PM

Hello ,

Here is the result. I'm too very confused about this matter.

If this portal supported screenshots , I would have pasted one to show you.

lsb_release -a

LSB Version: :base-4.0-ia32:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-ia32:printing-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseServer
Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago)
Release: 6.6
Codename: Santiago

rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release

redhat-release-server-6Server-6.6.0.2.el6.i686

Terry Bowling's picture Red Hat Guru 1310 points
11 February 2015 8:49 PM

Hello,一史 新井

As explained in this article, upgrades from Beta to General Availability (final release) versions are * NOT * supported and the tooling is not tested, as explained in the article What does beta mean in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and how to upgrade the beta version to non-beta or General Availability (GA) version?

Please open a support case if you have further questions.

That being said, one of the following articles * might possibly * work, but it could leave you in an unsupported state and things could break.

Radek Bíba's picture Red Hat Guru 1517 points
12 February 2015 8:26 AM

Actually, I think James has a point -- it could be an issue with the initramdisk that's used with the new kernel. Could you try rebuilding it? See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1958. Then reboot and check the progress bar again.

SR Community Member 50 points
12 February 2015 9:29 AM

Hello,

Bingo!!!!!!!

@James : Before rebuilding , those commands that you gave me , resulted the same output, it shows that 6.6 is installed.

@Radek: Thank you very much , the rebuild was what I needed, Now everything looks perfect and Redhat shows 6.6 at the bottom right after it finishes loading.

Thank you all, for your help and assistance , its like this that people can share there knowledge and help each others.

Regards

Radek Bíba's picture Red Hat Guru 1517 points
12 February 2015 9:42 AM

I'm glad to hear that. :)

james.radtke@siriusxm.com's picture Guru 6863 points
12 February 2015 1:48 PM

Hi Salah - I benefit from these types of questions as well. I just learned a few things about that part of the upstart process. Having an understanding of dracut is also beneficial.

A tip for posting "code" output, start and end the code with 3 x tildes ~~~
~~~
code here
~~~

Take care!

SR Community Member 50 points
12 February 2015 2:16 PM

Roger that James

Have a nice day

Vijay Krishna Koppisetti's picture Newbie 15 points
23 July 2015 7:10 AM

RHEL 6.7 released now.

re Community Member 95 points
5 August 2015 1:52 PM

Hi,
Time to update From RHEL 6.6 to 6.7

we can dowload the packages of RHEL 6.7 from the following link. (for manual yum server update).

https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/69/ver=/rhel---6/6.7/x86_64/packages

Kernel Version:

RHEL 6.7 Kernel version --- 2.6.32-573

RHEL 6.6 Kernel version --- 2.6.32-504

SR Newbie 10 points
25 August 2015 2:18 PM

Hi,
Would like to perform upgrade of server from RHEL 6.6 to RHEL6.7 for selective servers (nearly 100 servers ) and retain RHEL 6.6 channel as well. Like to know steps for creating separate channel for RHEL 6.7 in satellite and synchronize that channel from redhat for RHEL6.7 related packages.

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