You Upgrade Server Problems - Fix

If you upgrade from another Novell product to SuSE 9.2 and YOU is looking at old server lists instead of 9.2 servers, hand edit the following file to change the product and release versions.

/var/adm/YaST/ProdDB/

would you mind providing an example of what yours looks like? i tried, and YOU cant identify the version now.

=Type: UnitedLinux
=URL: cd:///;devices=/dev/hdc,/dev/hdd
=ProductDir: /
=Default_activate: 1
=Default_rank: 0
+Media:
SuSE Linux AG
20040407221336
5
-Media:
+Product:
SUSE LINUX-9.2-
SuSE-Linux-Professional-i386-9.2-0
SUSE LINUX--
SUSE LINUX AG
-Product:
=DefaultBase:i386
+Arch:
i386 i386 noarch
i486 i486 i386 noarch
i586 i586 i486 i386 noarch
i686 i686 i586 i486 i386 noarch
-Arch:
=Requires:distribution-release
=Language: en_US
+Linguas:
de
en
-Linguas:
=Label:SUSE LINUX Version 9.2
+LabelMap:
de SUSE LINUX in der Version 9.2
-LabelMap:
=Timezone: ******/*********
=DescriptionDir: ./suse/setup/descr
=DataDir: ./suse
=Flags: update
=RelnotesUrl: http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/SU...ease-notes.rpm
=YouUrl:
=YouType:
=YouPath: i386/update/9.2

I blanked out the product S#, you may want to consider doing the same.
I think this is the line where you went wrong;

=Requires:suse-release-9.2

yours says;

=Requires:distribution-release


=Type: UnitedLinux
=URL: cd:///;devices=/dev/hdc,/dev/hdd
=ProductDir: /
=Default_activate: 1
=Default_rank: 0
=UseForDeltas: 1
+Media:
SuSE Linux AG
2004************
-Media:
+Product:
SUSE LINUX-9.2-
SuSE-Linux-Professional-i386-9.2-0
--
SUSE LINUX AG
-Product:
=DefaultBase:i386
+Arch:
i386 i386 noarch
i486 i486 i386 noarch
i586 i586 i486 i386 noarch
i686 i686 i586 i486 i386 noarch
-Arch:
=Requires:suse-release-9.2
=Language: en_US
+Linguas:
de
en
-Linguas:
=Label:SUSE LINUX Version 9.2
+LabelMap:
de SUSE LINUX in der Version 9.2
-LabelMap:
=Timezone: America/Los_Angeles
=DescriptionDir: ./suse/setup/descr
=DataDir: ./suse
=Flags: update
=RelnotesUrl: http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/SUSE-LIN...lease-notes.rpm
=YouUrl:
=YouType:
=YouPath: i386/update/9.2

ok. i mimicked your YOU, except for

2004************

i did try it with and with out that. so we can eliminate that from the problem. YOU still doesnt recognize which version.

Ok, lets start from the beginning. What did you upgrade from and to? Did YOU ever work? At what point? You have rebooted right?

9.1 pro and upgraded via yast to 9.2. yes YOU worked. infact before this, it was identifying as 9.1. reboot? your kidding right? this is linux. the only time we need to reboot is kernel stuff. (no, i'm not trying to be a smart aleck. i am honestly confused).