[KLUG Members] UP2DATE failure

[Adam Williams]

>>I have recently installed a fresh installation of Redhat 7.2. However I can
>>not get rhn_register to work past the details / address fill in stage as the
>>application crashes due to a segmentation fault in a python process. Has
>>anyone else had this problem? I tried updating the following RPM's with no
>>success...
>>python-xmlrpc-1.5.1-7.x.3.i386.rpm
>>rhn_register-2.7.2-7.x.8.i386.rpm
>>rhn_register_gnome-2.7.2-7.x.8.i386.rpm
>>up2date-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm
>>up2date-gnome-2.7.11-7.x.2.i386.rpm
>I've had a similar problem in that I have not been able to install the
>latest RH6.2 version of up2date because that installation depends on
>several missing components in my RH6.2 system I am building for use in 
>very small slow machines for a school.  For example, one missing
>component is a later version of rpm.  However, that installation
>depends on several components not currently installed, one of which is
>libdb which I could get from glibc but that installation is held up by
>other missing components, ...

RH62 is a libc5 based distro,  >RH70 is based on libc6 (glibc)

The db packages should be available for libc5 systems as seperate
packages.  If they aren't on the CD's try rpmfind.