I have searched the forums for a similar problem, but did not find anything, so my apologies if this is a repeat.
When I go to the Software Update section, it shows that updates are available. I run the installer for the listed updates (with the updates selected of course). After clicking on reconfigure, when the page updates, it shows that I have updates available. Turns out that they are the list of updates is exactly the same as before. Every time I try to re-run, I get exactly the same result. I have performed 'yum clean all', but same problem persist. I have also rebooted, but that does not fix the problem.
What really makes me nervous is that I am getting failure notices for CLAMAV that it cannot update the db and that I need to update to the latest version!
I am running 7.2
Here is the list of updates that persist:
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=== yum reports available updates:
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LPRng.i386 3.8.32-2.el4.sme smeupdates
atrpms.noarch 71-1 smeupdates
check4updates.noarch 71-1 smeupdates
clamav.i386 0.92-1.el4.rf smeos
clamav-db.i386 0.92-1.el4.rf smeos
clamd.i386 0.92-1.el4.rf smeos
djbdns.i386 1.05-4.el4.sme smeupdates
dmraid.i386 1.0.0.rc14-6_RHEL4_U5. smeos
dungog-blacklists.noarch 1.0-20080101 dungogMembers
dungog-proxyusers.noarch 1.2-6 dungogMembers
e-smith-LPRng.noarch 1.14.0-6.el4.sme smeupdates
e-smith-base.i386 4.18.0-88.el4.sme smeupdates
e-smith-email.noarch 4.16.0-23.el4.sme smeupdates
e-smith-formmagick.noarch 1.4.0-6.el4.sme smeos
e-smith-horde.noarch 1.13.0-22.el4.sme smeos
e-smith-imp.noarch 1.13.0-11.el4.sme smeos
e-smith-lib.noarch 1.18.0-20.el4.sme smeupdates
e-smith-manager.noarch 1.14.0-11.el4.sme smeupdates
e-smith-mysql.noarch 1.12.0-15.el4.sme smeupdates
e-smith-ntp.noarch 1.16.0-13.el4.sme smeos
e-smith-nutUPS.noarch 1.2.0-17.el4.sme smeupdates
e-smith-openssh.noarch 1.12.0-13.el4.sme smeupdates
e-smith-portforwarding.noarch 1.2.0-6.el4.sme smeos
e-smith-proftpd.noarch 1.12.0-11.el4.sme smeupdates
e-smith-proxy.noarch 4.14.0-10.el4.sme smeos
e-smith-qmail.noarch 1.10.0-15.el4.sme smeupdates
e-smith-quota.noarch 1.10.0-7.el4.sme smeos
e-smith-samba.noarch 1.14.1-3.el4.sme smeupdates
e-smith-viewlogfiles.noarch 1.8.0-7.el4.sme smeupdates
e2fsprogs.i386 1.35-12.11.el4_6.1 updates
file.i386 4.10-5.el4 smeos
horde.noarch 3.1.5-1.el4.sme smeos
httpd.i386 2.0.52-38.ent.centos4. updates
httpd-suexec.i386 2.0.52-38.ent.centos4. updates
imp-h3.noarch 4.1.5-1.el4.sme smeos
ingo-h3.noarch 1.1.4-1.el4.sme smeos
initscripts.i386 7.93.31.EL-2.centos4.e smeos
kernel.i686 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL smeos
kernel-smp.i686 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL smeos
kmod-appletalk.i686 1.0-2.2.6.9_67.0.1.EL smeos
kmod-appletalk-smp.i686 1.0-2.2.6.9_67.0.1.EL smeos
kmod-ppp.i686 1.0.2-2.2.6.9_67.0.1.E smeos
kmod-ppp-smp.i686 1.0.2-2.2.6.9_67.0.1.E smeos
kmod-slip.i686 1.0-2.2.6.9_67.0.1.EL smeos
kmod-slip-smp.i686 1.0-2.2.6.9_67.0.1.EL smeos
libacl.i386 2.2.23-5.4.el4 smeos
libpcap.i386 14:0.8.3-12.el4_6.1 updates
libxml2.i386 2.6.16-10.1 updates
libxml2-python.i386 2.6.16-10.1 updates
lvm2.i386 2.02.27-2.el4_6.2 updates
maildrop.i386 2.0.4-5.el4 smeupdates
mdadm.i386 1.12.0-5.1.el4.sme smeos
mkinitrd.i386 4.2.1.13-1.1.el4.sme smeos
mod_ssl.i386 1:2.0.52-38.ent.centos updates
net-snmp.i386 5.1.2-11.el4_6.11.2 updates
net-snmp-libs.i386 5.1.2-11.el4_6.11.2 updates
net-snmp-utils.i386 5.1.2-11.el4_6.11.2 updates
perl-Authen-SASL.noarch 2.10-1.el4.1 smeos
perl-Error.noarch 0.17011-1.el4.rf smeos
perl-FreezeThaw.noarch 0.43-5.el4 smeos
perl-GSSAPI.i386 0.24-1.1.el4 smeos
perl-IO-Zlib.noarch 1.09-1.el4.rf smeupdates
perl-MLDBM.noarch 2.01-5.el4.1 smeos
perl-Net-DNS.i386 0.62-1.el4.rf smeupdates
perl-Quota.i386 1.6.1-1.el4.rf smeos
postgresql-libs.i386 7.4.19-1.el4_6.1 updates
pv.i386 1.1.0-1.el4.rf smeupdates
qpsmtpd.noarch 0.40-1.9.el4.sme smeupdates
rkhunter.noarch 1.3.0-4.el4.sme smeupdates
smeserver-audittools.noarch 0.0.2-6.el4.sme smeupdates
smeserver-clamav.noarch 1.2.0-16.el4.sme smeupdates
smeserver-locale-de.noarch 1.2.0-33.el4.sme smeupdates
smeserver-locale-es.noarch 1.2.0-33.el4.sme smeupdates
smeserver-locale-fr.noarch 1.2.0-33.el4.sme smeupdates
smeserver-locale-it.noarch 1.2.0-33.el4.sme smeupdates
smeserver-locale-sv.noarch 1.2.0-33.el4.sme smeupdates
smeserver-qpsmtpd.noarch 1.2.1-52.el4.sme smeupdates
smeserver-release.noarch 26:7.3-1.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-spamassassin.noarch 1.4.0-17.el4.sme smeos
smeserver-support.noarch 1.6.0-43.el4.sme smeupdates
smeserver-yum.noarch 1.2.0-48.el4.sme smeupdates
smolt.noarch 0.9.8.1-8.el4.sme smeupdates
spamassassin.i386 3.2.4-46.el4 smeupdates
tcpdump.i386 14:3.8.2-12.el4_6.1 updates
turba-h3.noarch 2.1.5-1.el4.sme smeos
tzdata.noarch 2007k-1.el4 updates
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2 updates
xorg-x11-libs.i386 6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.2 updates
zip.i386 2.3-29.EL4 smeos