Bug 112457

Summary:	rhn_register abends if hostname is not resolvable
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Omkhar Arasaratnam <omkhar>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fanny Augustin <fmoquete>
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Description Omkhar Arasaratnam 2003-12-19 23:56:19 UTC

Description of problem:

If up2date is not able to resolve the hostname of the system it will
abend with a python exception when it tries to grab the system info

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.9.3-2.2.1AS

How reproducible:
make hostname not resolveable, (remove from /etc/hosts or DNS servers)
and run rhn_register

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
abend (python trace back)

Expected results:
register machine

Additional info:

Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2004-08-24 21:50:05 UTC

*** Bug 112458 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***