Bug 100770
| Summary: | up2date -update or any other options fails with Python error | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | David M Walker <davidw> |
| Component: | up2date | Assignee: | Adrian Likins <alikins> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fanny Augustin <fmoquete> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | gafton, mihai.ibanescu |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-08-23 18:36:45 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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It turns out that (for reasons not needed here) the channel subscription on rhn.redhat.com had been set to none, but a more graceful error would be nice indeed, current clients handle this better |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: One of our servers (and noticably not all of them besides the fact they all run the same version) has started doing this: # up2date --update Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 781, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 569, in main pkgNames, fullUpdate, dryRun = dry_run)) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 724, in batchRun batch.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 57, in run self.__findPackagesToUpdate() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 89, in __findPackagesToUpdate plist.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 85, in run self.addObsoletePackages(obsList) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 109, in addObsoletePackages for p in obsoletePackages: TypeError: loop over non-sequence The is also true for other options such as up2date --force --download kernel, which fails with exactly the same message Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-2.8.39-1.7.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run up2date --update Actual Results: As per log file above Expected Results: No crash error Additional info: