Bug 131584

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Description of problem:
In the last few days, I've started noticing that up2date fails about
half the time on my RHEL3-U2 machines. I updated one of them to
RHEl-U3 and it still has the problem.

I do not think this is a duplicate of 130637. 
The backtrace is different, for one thing...

My suspicion (given where the error occurs, and the fact that I have
seen occasional failures of the rhn web interface since the upgrade on
tuesday) that this error is somehow triggered by a server failure.

If I run up2date with -vv, the 'D: logininfo:...' and 'D:
availablePackageList::channels:' lines appear before the traceback occurs.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
up2date-4.2.38-1

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run up2date -u (or up2date up2date, or...) (the 'Expected' output
below is for an already up-to-date system)

Actual Results:  https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1174, in ?
    sys.exit(main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 772, in main
    fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1066, in batchRun
    batch.run()
  File "up2dateBatch.py", line 62, in run
  File "up2dateBatch.py", line 97, in __findPackagesToUpdate
  File "packageList.py", line 157, in addGlobs
  File "rhnPackageInfo.py", line 232, in getAvailablePackageList
  File "rhnPackageInfo.py", line 150, in availablePackageList
  File "repoDirector.py", line 64, in initRepoDirector
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/up2dateRepo.py",
line 345, in register
    up2dateRepo = Up2dateRepo()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/up2dateRepo.py",
line 304, in __init__
    serverSettings)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/up2dateRepo.py",
line 247, in getGETServer
    server= rpcServer.RetryGETServer(serverSettings.serverList.server(),
  File "rpcServer.py", line 103, in server
IndexError: list index out of range


Expected Results:  
Invalid group id server-cfg

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