Bug 595669

Summary:	rhnreg_ks doesn't work on ppc64, failure in file hardware_gudev.py line 93, in get_devices
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Petr Sklenar <psklenar>
Component:	rhn-client-tools	Assignee:	Miroslav Suchý <msuchy>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Petr Sklenar <psklenar>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.0	CC:	jhutar, msuchy
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Regression
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	rhn-client-tools-1.0.0-10.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	564352, 582655

Description Petr Sklenar 2010-05-25 10:50:45 UTC

Description of problem:
There is traceback in /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/hardware_gudev.py file. I can see this failure on one from two of my testing ppc64.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-dmidecode
rhnlib-2.5.22-5.el6.noarch
rhn-client-tools-1.0.0-9.el6.noarch
python-gudev-147.1-4.el6.ppc64
python-dmidecode-3.10.12-1.el6.ppc64

How reproducible:
always on ppc64 machine, ibm-js22-vios-02-lp2.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com

Steps to Reproduce:
[root@ibm-js22-vios-02-lp2 ~]#  rhnreg_ks --username=**** --password=**** --server=https://xmlrpc.rhn.errata.stage.redhat.com/XMLRPC 
An error has occurred:
<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>
See /var/log/up2date for more information

[root@ibm-js22-vios-02-lp2 ~]# tail -n15 /var/log/up2date
[Tue May 25 06:43:20 2010] up2date 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 205, in <module>
    cli.run()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhncli.py", line 74, in run
    sys.exit(self.main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 99, in main
    hardwareList = hardware.Hardware()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/hardware.py", line 667, in Hardware
    allhw = get_devices()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/hardware_gudev.py", line 93, in get_devices
    result_item['prop1'] = m.group(1) # DEV_HOST
<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

[root@ibm-js22-vios-02-lp2 ~]# uname -a
Linux ibm-js22-vios-02-lp2.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com 2.6.32-28.el6.ppc64 #1 SMP Thu May 20 14:05:29 EDT 2010 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux
[root@ibm-js22-vios-02-lp2 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.0 Beta (Santiago)

  
Actual results:
traceback
    result_item['prop1'] = m.group(1) # DEV_HOST
<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

Expected results:
works

Additional info:

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2010-05-25 11:16:29 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 6 Miroslav Suchý 2010-05-25 11:49:27 UTC

Fixed in spacewalk git as commit 013ee43afa07cd7f8b1441e111c98439bd659b1c
Cherrypicked to satellite.git as commit b6bc59245fe4763557079207da76310d5a500146

Comment 7 Miroslav Suchý 2010-05-25 11:56:27 UTC

Built package rhn-client-tools-1.0.0-10.el6

Comment 9 Petr Sklenar 2010-06-17 13:04:27 UTC

reproduced and verified on
ibm-js22-vios-02-lp2.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com,

Comment 11 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-07-02 19:49:07 UTC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Beta 2 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.