[users] Mrepo (with Redhat) works on one but not the other?

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Matt Hyclak wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:59:08PM -1000, Camron W. Fox enlightened us:
> > Jim Perrin wrote:
> > >On 3/9/07, Camron W. Fox <cwfox at us.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > >
> > ><snip>
> > >
> > >>rhnget: "Unknown error that needs more debugging occured with channel
> > >>rhel-x86_64-es-4-extras. Skipping.\n'up2date'"
> > >>mrepo: Mirroring failed for rhns:///rhel-x86_64-es-4-extras with message:
> > >>
> > >
> > >Look at url string, rhns:///
> > >
> > >I don't think that looks right. You might wish to check the
> > >corresponding versions of all software involved. I'm not 100% where
> > >it's pulling that value, but it may give you a place to start looking.
> > >
> > >
> > Jim,
> > 
> > 	It's straight out of /etc/mrepo.conf.d/rhel4es.conf, which is the 
> > 	same on both boxes:
> > 
> 
> What version of mrepo? There was a problem at one time where rhns:///
> evaluated to something that came from the up2date configuration, which on a
> CentOS box was not a redhat rhn server (go figure...).
> 
> You might check that, as well as making sure the the line 
> 
> up2date default
> 
> is uncommented in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> 
> It is commented by default on CentOS boxes and is required for mrepo to work.

Yes, Matt is right. How cryptic the error message is (sadly it is hard to 
parse) this means that you have the 'up2date default' line commented.

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