If you look in /etc/yum.repos.d/clearos.repo, check that clearos-test and clearos-test have enabled=0. 6.6 beta has been coming from clearos-test.

Note that if you do a yum with --enablerepo=* or --enablerepo=clearos-test,clearos-test you can temporarily enable them, but don't do it by habit!

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FWIW the yum update bug/error occurred during the night of 17/06 with the installation of 1:app-base-core-1.6.3-1.v6.noarch and 1:app-base-1.6.3-1.v6.noarch. It was fixed during 18/06. You can have a look at /var/log/yum.log around that period.
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I installed the Software Repository add-on available from the Marketplace.

The settings - assuming they reflect the current system settings and installation of the Software Repository didn't reset everything to the defaults – look normal to me. I am no expert however.

Hi Nick

Thank you for your response.

I did a Google search on ClearOS testing repos. So I think you mean the Software Repository that is available for free in the Marketplace. I checked, that is not installed.

I don't do command line stuff except where necessary at installation. I doubt I ran a yum update manually. It is not impossible, I did. I do tinker. I haven't been through the logs yet. Perhaps that is a next step.

I wonder what would happen if I installed “Software Repository” from the Marketplace and choose option 5. OS/ClearOS (final releases). If I can't go back to 6.5, maybe that would help me stay on final releases from the completion of the 6.6 beta forward.

Again I appreciate your input.

Paul

Have you enabled any of the testing repos? That would pull in 6.6 beta. There was a bug for a few hours a month or two back when the automatic updates could pull in 6.6 beta but it would only be triggered if you did 2 updates in about 12 hours. Implicitly this means you would have been running yum update manually as the automatic nightly update could not have triggered the bug on its own.

In my experience you've always been able to update from a beta to final but it is not guaranteed. I also don't think there is a way back to 6.5 but I could be wrong.