Bug 438175
| Summary: | Error message suggests to use up2date --register on RHEL 5 | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora> |
| Component: | yum-rhn-plugin | Assignee: | John Matthews <jmatthew> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2008-0360 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-05-21 14:27:51 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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I think this is a change to Satellite on the backend. This file, eng/backend/server/rhnHandler.py, sends the referenced error message. (In reply to comment #2) > I think this is a change to Satellite on the backend. > > This file, eng/backend/server/rhnHandler.py, sends the referenced error message. Right. We might want to fix this in the Satellite ... but then we will still hit the problem when parented to hosted, we'd need to fix hosted as well. In addition: do we have enough information in the Satellite code to properly detect client environment and generate correctly customized error message? Maybe we could do a change to the client code and override whatever error message we got from the Satellite/hosted to be correct in our local environment. So that Satellite/hosted could still generate message which is slightly confusing (heck, the error message should just holt the error information, not suggestions what to do about it, that's clearly client tools task) and yum / yum-rhn-plugin could overwrite it to be correct on RHEL 5. Added a code change to the client which will reword the error message. svn rev #167644 I now get this error message when now registered:
There was an error communicating with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Error communicating with server. The message was:
Error Message:
Please run rhn_register as root on this client
Error Class Code: 9
Error Class Info: Invalid System Credentials.
Explanation:
An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem
persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com.
If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include
details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and
details on how to reproduce this problem.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0360.html |
Description of problem: I've run yum check-update on my system. The wording of the error message suggests to use up2date --register. Maybe this is Satellite specific. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # rpm -q yum yum-rhn-plugin yum-3.0.1-5.el5 yum-rhn-plugin-0.4.3-1.el5 How reproducible: Tried once. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have a system registered to RHN (Satellite), then delete that system on the WebUI. 2. Run yum check-update on that system. Actual results: # yum check-update Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "rhnplugin" plugin There was an error communicating with RHN. RHN support will be disabled. Error communicating with server. The message was: Error Message: Please run rhn_register (or up2date --register on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or later) as root on this client Error Class Code: 9 Error Class Info: Invalid System Credentials. Explanation: An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com. If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and details on how to reproduce this problem. Setting up repositories No Repositories Available to Set Up Reading repository metadata in from local files # rhn_register Expected results: It should not mention up2date --register, or it should make it clear that up2date is RHEL 3 and RHEL 4 only, not RHEL 3 or later, since there is no up2date on RHEL 5. Additional info: