Bug 1004112

Summary: continuous abrt spam: ImportError: No module named transaction
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Rik van Riel <riel>
Component: yumAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 6.4CC: james.antill, mzazrivec
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Last Closed: 2013-09-04 09:50:25 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Rik van Riel 2013-09-04 01:28:39 UTC
Description of problem:

After rebooting my RHEL6 system, I am getting a continuous stream of abrt mail (one every 2-3 minutes) with the following info in it.

I am not sure what is triggering this issue, I am not touching the system, just getting spammed with these error messages...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:

rhn-client-tools-1.0.0.1-8.el6.noarch

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have a RHEL6 system registered with RHN
2. reboot it, so it runs all the recent RHEL6 programs
3.

Actual results:


abrt_version:   2.0.8
cmdline:        python /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/hardware.py
executable:     /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/hardware.py
kernel:         2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64
time:           Tue 03 Sep 2013 09:17:36 PM EDT
uid:            0
username:       root

sosreport.tar.xz: Binary file, 3868212 bytes

backtrace:
:config.py:40:<module>:ImportError: No module named transaction
:
:Traceback (most recent call last):
:  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/hardware.py", line 25, in <module>
:    import rhnserver
:  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 22, in <module>
:    import rpcServer
:  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 12, in <module>
:    import clientCaps
:  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/clientCaps.py", line 10, in <module>
:    import capabilities
:  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/capabilities.py", line 4, in <module>
:    import up2dateErrors
:  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateErrors.py", line 16, in <module>
:    from yum.Errors import RepoError, YumBaseError
:  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 52, in <module>
:    import config
:  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/config.py", line 40, in <module>
:    import rpmUtils.transaction
:ImportError: No module named transaction
:
:Local variables in innermost frame:
:urlparse: None
:ConfigPreProcessor: None
:copy: None
:warnings: None
:__builtins__: {'bytearray': <type 'bytearray'>, 'IndexError': <type 'exceptions.IndexError'>, 'all': <built-in function all>, 'help': Type help() for interactive help, or help(object) for help about object., 'vars': <built-in function vars>, 'SyntaxError': <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'>, 'unicode': <type 'unicode'>, 'UnicodeDecodeError': <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>, 'isinstance': <built-in function isinstance>, 'copyright': Copyright (c) 2001-2010 Python Software Foundation.
:All Rights Reserved.
:
:Copyright (c) 2000 BeOpen.com.
:All Rights Reserved.
:
:Copyright (c) 1995-2001 Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
:All Rights Reserved.
:
:Copyright (c) 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam.
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:rpm: None
:__file__: None
:INIConfig: None
:_use_iniparse: None
:sys: None
:ConfigParser: None
:shlex: None
:ParsingError: None
:NoOptionError: None
:__name__: None
:NoSectionError: None
:__package__: None
:os: None
:__doc__: None
:varReplace: None

Additional information:

abrt does not actually attach sosreport.tar.xz

Comment 1 Rik van Riel 2013-09-04 01:34:54 UTC
As an aside, the file /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpmUtils/transaction.py, which the error message suggests does not exist, actually does exist, permissions look ok, and "rpm -V yum" reports no mismatches.

Comment 2 Milan Zázrivec 2013-09-04 09:50:25 UTC
Yes, this happens b/c some crash happens on your system, abrt catches
it and while creating the crash report, abrt tries to run sosreport,
which crashes b/c of a module import error -> here we are.

This will be resolved in RHEL-6.5 with bug #983999.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 983999 ***