Bug 740718

Summary: exception occurred when starting update
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: finishshots <info>
Component: pirutAssignee: James Antill <james.antill>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 5.7CC: bkearney
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description finishshots 2011-09-23 05:36:56 UTC
Created attachment 524539 [details]
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Description of problem:
Everytime I try to check for updates, I receive a Exception Occurred popup asking to file a report against pirut.  Have not been able to download or install any updates since August 23.  Redhat support will not help.

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How reproducible:
Start Software Updater or
type yum update in terminal window

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Software updater
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Actual results:
Exception occurred error.
Summary: TB38ebe1be yumRepo.py:986:_getFileRepoXML:TypeError: _getFile() got an unexpected keyword argument 'size'


Expected results:
list of updates to install

Additional info:

Comment 1 James Antill 2011-09-26 20:01:01 UTC
 You have a newer version of yum than we ship in RHEL-5, if you get a newer version of yum-rhn-plugin it will work fine (or patch it by hand to add the size argument to it's _getFile ... and then just ignore it).