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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: After installing RH9.0, I wanted to update the system. First I tried the RHN Alert Notification Tool which works fine until I click the "launch up2date" button. Nothing happens - ever. So I launched it from the shell, and after a couple of minutes it spits out Python junk, starting with "Traceback (most recent call last):" and ending with "TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -=: 'str' and 'int'" (see "Additional Information"). I manually updated up2date and tried again - same result. I manually updated everything else from the list generated by RHN Alert Notification tool - same result (well, I grabbed the wrong arch version of glibc once and had to reinstall the system, but anyways...) I reinstalled the system - same result. I reinstalled the system with different package selection (from WS to All Packages) - same result. No matter what I do, the error is the same - if I try it with or without parameters, with or without packages to actually update, the error is still there and always the same. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-3.1.23.1-5 python-2.2.2-26 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a shell 2. Invoke up2date 3. Wait a few minutes Actual Results: After a couple of minutes I get an error dump in my shell (see "Additional Information") Expected Results: When invoking up2date with packages to be updated, I expect these to be updated Additional info: Here's the output up2date throws up after a couple of minutes ------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 993, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 612, in main up2dateAuth.updateLoginInfo() File "up2dateAuth.py", line 112, in updateLoginInfo File "up2dateAuth.py", line 100, in login File "rpcServer.py", line 114, in doCall File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 821, in __call__ return self.__send(self.__name, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 126, in _request verbose=self._verbose File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 142, in request fd = resp.decode(fd) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 355, in decode self.read(fd) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 336, in read self.io = _smart_total_read(fd) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 407, in _smart_total_read chunk = fd.read(bufferSize) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 388, in read self.length -= amt TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -=: 'str' and 'int' ------------------------------------------------------------- Other facts (useful or not): My box is a Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop standard HW config (256MB RAM, 8MB 2xAGP, etc) I'm using NTP for accurate time (the result is the same with or without suing NTP, with or without using UTC). Right now the system is running with all updates available for my system (according to RHN Alert...). I have not yet compiled the kernel, but I figure up2date should work without recompiling the kernel. Thanks /j.
rhnlib bug. Do you run on a wireless network card?
No I don't run on a wireless network card. My network setup is pretty simple and as follows: I have a Win2k box with two NICs - one for internal networking and one for external (to ADSL to Internet). The internal network NIC acts, with an Internet Router software, as Gateway for my other machines. My laptop has a normal D-Link PCMCIA 10/100mbit NIC with which I connect to the Internet through the Gateway on my winhog box. All other network operations I've tried so far on my laptop works fine. I've checked the log files of the router software on my winhog machine and there's nothing unusual there. I've checked the log file of up2date (/var/log/up2date) and there it says: up2date updating login info up2date loging into up2date server And that's it. The other log files doesn't say anything regarding up2date. Oh, yes, while trying up2date I have disabled my firewalls.
I haven't managed to determine the exact problem, but I assume that the communication between RHN and my laptop suffer in one way or another when running through my win box router software and the VPN tunnel. Could be an authentication problem, lost packages, time-outs or what have you. Whatever it is I can't tell, as all logs from all involved apps and interfaces looks ok and all other network operations work the way they should. The solution, however, was simply to setup my laptop as the primary "Internet machine". Even though this solution isn't ideal, since a) I don't want my home network to be dependent on my laptop and b) I still think it should work with a normal NAT configuration, I figure it's safe to say that all is fine and dandy now. Thanks for your time and consideration. Johan Sand