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Upgrade RHEL 7.2 To 7.6

The document provides steps to upgrade a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 server to version 7.6. It involves mounting the RHEL 7.6 ISO, configuring the repository, checking the current OS version, running yum update, resolving a hanging issue during the upgrade, rebooting the system and addressing an SELinux error, and finally verifying the new OS version.

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Upgrade RHEL 7.2 To 7.6

The document provides steps to upgrade a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 server to version 7.6. It involves mounting the RHEL 7.6 ISO, configuring the repository, checking the current OS version, running yum update, resolving a hanging issue during the upgrade, rebooting the system and addressing an SELinux error, and finally verifying the new OS version.

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1- Mount RHEL 7.

6 ISO image on linux server

mount -t iso9660 -o loop /u01/db_source_12.1/rhel-server-7.6-x86_64-


dvd.iso /mnt

2- Configure the repo . Navigate to /etc/yum.repos.d and create file called “rhel7_6.repo”

3- Note down current OS version details


[root@rhel7 yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)
[root@rhel7 yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
VERSION="7.2 (Maipo)"
ID="rhel"
ID_LIKE="fedora"
VERSION_ID="7.2"
PRETTY_NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.2 (Maipo)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.2:GA:server"
HOME_URL="https://www.redhat.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"

REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"


REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=7.2
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="7.2"
[root@rhel7 yum.repos.d]# uname -a
Linux rhel7.localdomain 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 29 17:29:29 EDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
GNU/Linux

4- Proceed with OS upgrade using “yum update”


yum clean all

yum repolist enabled

yum update -y
Upgrade hangs at this step

Resolution: use workaround from this link:

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1387833

[root@rhel7 yum.repos.d]# ps -ef |grep systemctl


root 48167 80709 0 00:15 pts/3 00:00:00 grep --color=auto systemctl
root 118674 118648 0 Mar04 pts/2 00:00:00 systemctl try-restart initial-setup-text.service
[root@rhel7 yum.repos.d]#
[root@rhel7 yum.repos.d]# kill -9 118674
[root@rhel7 yum.repos.d]#

Then upgrade continues

5- Reboot the system


Issue after restart with SELinux

Solution:
- Restart VM
- During restart use arrow keys to pause auto startup
- Press “e” to edit loader

- Go down with arrow till the following line and add “selinux=0” clause
- Press “ctrl+x” keys
6- Note down new OS version details
[root@rhel7 yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/redhat-release

[root@rhel7 yum.repos.d]# cat /etc/os-release

[root@rhel7 ~]# cat /etc/os-release

NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"

VERSION="7.6 (Maipo)"

ID="rhel"

ID_LIKE="fedora"

VARIANT="Server"

VARIANT_ID="server"

VERSION_ID="7.6"

PRETTY_NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.6 (Maipo)"

ANSI_COLOR="0;31"

CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6:GA:server"

HOME_URL="https://www.redhat.com/"

BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"

REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=7.6

REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"

REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="7.6"

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