Bug 205726
| Summary: | up2date fails with expat error and python stacktrace | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Klaus Ethgen <Klaus+rhbz> |
| Component: | up2date | Assignee: | Pradeep Kilambi <pkilambi> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brandon Perkins <bperkins> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2007-0815 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-11-15 16:33:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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User bnackash's account has been closed *** Bug 205724 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 205725 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. # up2date -u Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-server-5... Fetching rpm headers... ######################################## Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- MAKEDEV 3.23 1.2 i386 NetworkManager 0.6.4 6.el5 i386 OpenIPMI 2.0.6 5.el5.3 i386 OpenIPMI-libs 2.0.6 5.el5.3 i386 PyXML 0.8.4 4 i386 SysVinit 2.86 14 i386 Xaw3d 1.5E 10.1 i386 ... ... Installing... 1:xorg-x11-deprecated-lib########################################### [100%] 2:openmotif21 ########################################### [100%] 3:seamonkey-nspr ########################################### [100%] 4:perl-Digest-HMAC ########################################### [100%] seems to be working properly as of # rpm -q up2date up2date-4.5.5-7.el4 please try with latest version of up2date and let us know if you still see this issue. moving to modified to reverify it with qa. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0815.html |
Description of problem: On one of our AS4 servers I get the following error trying to update the system with "up2date -u": xxxxxxx:~# up2date -u Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-4... Fetching rpm headers... An error has occurred: xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError See /var/log/up2date for more information In /var/log/up2date I find the following boring and useless python error message: --- [Fri Sep 8 10:42:07 2006] up2date updating login info [Fri Sep 8 10:42:07 2006] up2date logging into up2date server [Fri Sep 8 10:42:07 2006] up2date successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server [Fri Sep 8 10:42:07 2006] up2date availablePackageList from network [Fri Sep 8 10:42:09 2006] up2date File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1288, in ? sys.exit(main() or 0) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 806, in main fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run)) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1126, in batchRun batch.init() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 65, in init self.__findPackagesToUpdate() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 112, in __findPackagesToUpdate self.availableUpdates = plist.getPackagesToInstall() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 682, in getPackagesToInstall result = self.__skipPackages(result) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 711, in __skipPackages packageList = self.__skipFiles(packageList) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 732, in __skipFiles ignoreMsgCallback = self.ignoreMsgCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 771, in buildHeaderList hdr = headerList[pkg] File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/headers.py", line 37, in __getitem__ self.__retrievePackage(item) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/headers.py", line 42, in __retrievePackage hdr, sourceType = rpcServer.doCall(self.repos.getHeader, item) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 236, in doCall ret = apply(method, args, kwargs) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoDirector.py", line 33, in getHeader return self.handlers[channel['type']].getHeader(pkg, msgCallback, progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 213, in getHeader header = source.getHeader(pkg, progressCallback = progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/up2dateRepo.py", line 152, in getHeader fd = self.s.getPackageHeader(channel, filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 606, in __call__ result = self._send(self._name, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 319, in _request request, verbose=self._verbose) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 185, in request return self._process_response(fd, connection) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 213, in _process_response return self.parse_response(fd) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 236, in parse_response p.close() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/xmlrpclib.py", line 531, in close self._parser.Parse("", 1) # end of data --- I also tried to uninstall and reinstall up2date and rhnlib and also reregistering the machine new on the satellite. As you might expect, this is a very urgent issue as this machine is a important server in our infrastructure and fully connected to the internet! There are several high security bugs open which cannot applied! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.4.69-25 rhnlib-1.8.7-4 How reproducible: See above. Actual results: See above. Expected results: Well, of course the update...