Unable to update glibc in RedHat 5.1
Hello,
I'm unable to get any update or install going in my server.
I have opened a previous discussion where I was asked if I have an active subscription which I do.
Again, This is what I have
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
rhel-debuginfo.repo
when I run yum update glibc, the following output is displayed :
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
No Repositories Available to Set Up
Reading repository metadata in from local files Could not find update match for glibc No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
I don't know if I'm doing this right but even if I try to install epel-release it doesn't give me any packages available..
Thank you
Responses
Hi,
This part is interesting: Loading "installonlyn" plugin. That doesn't look familiar, and the list of plugins certainly looks incomplete.
What plugins do you have in /usr/lib/yum-plugins/? You should have /usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py, and it must be enabled in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf. Alternatively, you could use Subscription Manager instead of RHN. It has another plugin and configuration file.
Radek
Hi Kwala,
Is your server registered to Red Hat Network or a Red Hat (Network) Satellite?
In other words, did you run rhn_register on this server?
If not: What may be the cause.
Be aware patching glibc and nscd for the GHOST vulnerabilty will introduction a RHEL 5.11 patch.
Kind regards,
Jan Gerrit
The output of yum would be different if the system just weren't registered. Specifically:
yum update
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
This system is not registered with RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.
You can use rhn_register to register.
RHN Satellite or RHN Classic support will be disabled.
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
Hi,
It seems the plugin is working -- you have the rhel-x86_64-server-5 repo now, which is good.
The error message can have several reasons, but you might make things work by cleaning yum's cache (yum clean all); then try again. If yum still fails, try increasing the debug level: yum -d 10 update...
https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/packages/details/Overview.do?pid=789965 (I hope this ID works for you.)
This is yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4.1-7.el5, which is the latest released version for RHEL 5 (5.11). Note: it requires rhn-client-tools >= 0.4.20.1-4, but if you're really running 5.1, you most likely have rhn-client-tools-0.4.16-1.el5, in which case you might want yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.2-3.el5, available from https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/software/packages/details/Overview.do?pid=422022.
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