Bug 554693

Summary:	networkRetries = nonsense runs unlimited, set some default
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Petr Sklenar <psklenar>
Component:	rhn-client-tools	Assignee:	Michael Mráka <mmraka>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Pavel Novotny <pnovotny>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.4	CC:	jhutar, mmraka, pnovotny
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	rhn-client-tools-0.4.20-40.el5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	When the "networkRetries" configuration option was not set to a valid integer value, network operation did not time out at all. With this update, invalid values are now interpreted as a single attempt, and network operations time out as expected.	Story Points:	---
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Clones:	625791 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-01-14 00:09:57 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	625791

Description Petr Sklenar 2010-01-12 12:25:12 UTC

Description of problem:
when you set 'networkRetries=A' which is nonsense it runs unlimited, it doesn't end

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhn-client-tools-0.4.20-14.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 443 -o eth0 -j DROP
2. # grep networkRetries /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date 
networkRetries=A
3. rhnreg_ks -vvv --username=****** --password=***** --force --server=https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC 
  
Actual results:
many and many attempts

Expected results:
there is some default, for ex 5 attempts

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Mráka 2010-08-20 10:18:04 UTC

Fixed in upstream (spacewalk master) by
commit 4764a50696a20b3ac0282a43f2fd144edd04ef6c
    554693 - networkRetries should be positive number

Comment 2 Michael Mráka 2010-08-30 11:53:51 UTC

Fixed in svn
r195422 | mmraka | 2010-08-20 14:46:04 +0200 (Fri, 20 Aug 2010) | 6 lines

554693 - networkRetries should be positive number

Comment 5 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-11-30 12:31:22 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
When the "networkRetries" configuration option was not set to a valid integer value, network operation did not time out at all. With this update, invalid values are now interpreted as a single attempt, and network operations time out as expected.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-14 00:09:57 UTC

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 therefore 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/RHEA-2011-0112.html