Try to update RHEL 6.5 release to 6.10

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Hi all,

i'm using a RHEL 6.5 vm server.
I would like to update it to 6.10 version.
My server is correctly subscribed.
After a big "sudo yum update -y" (about 400 Mo) & reboot, i found 2 "problems" :
- /etc/redhat-release is still with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)"
- on redHat customer's portal, my server is displayed with : 45 security failures & 12 bugs. How can i update my server with thoses patchs ?

Moreover :
$ uname -a
Linux vulcain 2.6.32-696.3.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 7 11:51:39 EDT 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Last week, i've performed same steps to update another server, and after a reboot, it was successfully update to 6.10 release.

Best regards

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PM Community Member 40 points
26 June 2018 8:15 AM

I got it ! In my "/etc/yum.conf" file there was an "exclude=kernel* redhat-release*" I've just removed this line, performed a "sudo yum clean all" & "sudo yum update -y". Now my redhat-release file is correctly updated to "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10". I think that RedHat portal will be updated soon with my server's erratas.

Best regards

Christian Labisch's picture Guru 9710 points
26 June 2018 11:00 AM

Hi Philippe,

Thanks for sharing your solution ! I didn't know this ... it shows that one never stops learning new stuff ...

Cheers :)
Christian

SW Red Hat Guru 4022 points
26 June 2018 10:37 AM

Thank you for sharing the solution.

SM Guru 3731 points
27 June 2018 5:49 PM

Check if grub is updated, as per the release notes of RHEL6.10 it is documented saying that this is a know issue and manually need to be updated https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/6.10_release_notes/known_issues_installation_and_booting

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