Bug 35856

Summary: --whatprovides breaks for invalid param
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: James Manning <jmm>
Component: up2dateAssignee: Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version: 7.1CC: srevivo
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Description James Manning 2001-04-13 03:29:32 UTC
This is Seawolf installed with up2date against ftp.beta

[root@laptop /root]# up2date --whatprovides bash
bash-2.04-21
[root@laptop /root]# up2date --whatprovides dcopserver
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 859, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 814, in main
    return whatprovides(depslist)
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 403, in whatprovides
    provides = up2date.solveDep(deps_list)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date/up2date.py", line 888, in solveDep
    raise CommunicationError(f.faultString)
up2date.CommunicationError: Error communicating with server.  The message was:

        An unexpected error has occured while processing your request. Please
        try again later or submit a bug report tp rhns_help.
        If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include
        details of what were you trying to do when this error occured and
details
        on how to reproduce this problem.
Could not solve dependency dcopserver

Comment 1 Jay Turner 2001-04-13 13:58:25 UTC
This is an issue with the beta server and not with up2date itself.  I am able to
run 'up2date --whatprovides dcopserver' against the internal test machines
(which have the same code base as the live servers) and get back a null list.

Comment 2 James Manning 2001-04-13 14:18:41 UTC
so what are we supposed to file against with up2date server problems?

FWIW, Adrian wanted me to create this bugzilla entry, although I'm not sure why