Bug 83529

Summary: up2date-config start error when proxyPassword is a number
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Marcel Svitalský <marcel.svitalsky>
Component: up2dateAssignee: Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fanny Augustin <fmoquete>
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Version: 7.3CC: gafton, mihai.ibanescu
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Description Marcel Svitalský 2003-02-05 10:41:06 UTC
Description of problem:

If user's proxyPassword is a number, up2date-config fails to start and generates
an error output from the Python interpreter.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.8.39


How reproducible: see Description.


Actual results: Error traceback from Python


Expected results: up2date-config started


Additional info:

I suggest to change /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configdlg.py, line 77, from
current:

self.xml.get_widget("proxyPasswordEntry").set_text(self.cfg.readEntry("proxyPassword"))

to:

self.xml.get_widget("proxyPasswordEntry").set_text(str(self.cfg.readEntry("proxyPassword")))

Comment 1 Marcel Svitalský 2003-02-05 11:31:40 UTC
Maybe I could add traceback too:    :-))

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date-config", line 781, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date-config", line 512, in main
    configdlg.main()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configdlg.py", line 331, in main
    gui = Gui()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configdlg.py", line 64, in __init__
    self.setInitialValues()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configdlg.py", line 77, in setInitialValues
   
self.xml.get_widget("proxyPasswordEntry").set_text(self.cfg.readEntry("proxyPassword"))
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2213, in set_text
    _gtk.gtk_entry_set_text(self._o, text)
TypeError: gtk_entry_set_text, argument 2: expected string, int found


Comment 2 Adrian Likins 2003-02-05 16:38:51 UTC
should be fixed in 3.1.12 

Comment 3 Jay Turner 2003-02-14 04:25:49 UTC
Fix confirmed with up2date-3.1.15-7.