From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-3.1.46-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start either rhn_register or up2date --register 2. Click Forward at the Welcome screen 3. Click Forward at the Privacy Statement 4. Either specify an existing account or a new account at the Step 2:Login page 5. Click Forward Actual Results: rhn_register sits for 5-6 seconds, then exits with the error: segmentation fault. It does not give any additional error information, even when using the -v or --verbose switches. This also occurs with up2date-nox --register Expected Results: rhn_register should have proceeded with the registration process. Additional info: This is a fresh install of stock Severn beta 1, default Gnome workstation package selection.
does this still occur with current versions (3.9.2x or so?)
I updated rhnlib and up2date from the latest versions in rawhide: rhnlib 1.4-1 up2date 3.9.28-2 up2date-gnome 3.9.28-2 rhn_register still bombs out without any error message. I tried launching: up2date -> no error, crash on submitting login up2date -v -> ditto rhn_register -> ditto up2date-nox -> crash on submitting login, but this gave me a GTK dialog box that said "Unknown error occured" FWIW, I did a fresh install on a second system -- stock Severn beta 1 up2date worked without a hitch, so this is definitely isolated to my first system. I hope everyone at RH remains safe and sound during the hurricaine!
I just wiped out my Severn1 install and did a fresh Severn2 install. up2date --register and up2date-nox --register still crash without any error messages or log entries explaining why. Watching the network monitor shows that the system does receive back some packets from RHN right before up2date --register goes down. I also tried updating up2date with the latest Rawhide release (up2date-4.0.1-2.i386.rpm) The only odd thing I can identify with my system is that I'm using a PPPD script to dial out on a GPRS modem instead of using the RedHat networking GUI tools. Could this be the source of the problem?
I can confirm that in Fedora Core 1, running 'up2date --register' or 'up2date-nox --register' does not do anything.
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Closing as CANTFIX.