From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030722 Galeon/1.3.7 Description of problem: Upon upgrading to the latest Rawhide up2date, I have noticed that executing up2date does nothing. If I start up2date from the console, I receive the following: # up2date There was an authentication error: Unable to authenticate This error message should be more descriptive (citing what the user may or may not be able to do to fix it). It should also be available as a dialog box, if up2date is running in Gnome mode. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-3.9.13-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see description Actual Results: "There was an authentication error: Unable to authenticate" is displayed only if up2date is executed from a console. Expected Results: The error message should be displayed in a dialog box, and be more descriptive as to what the actual problem is. Additional info:
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Sorry for all the duplicates.. Bugzilla was suffering from extreme horkage yesterday.
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I am receiving the same error. I have deleted my system profile from RHN, re-run rhn_register, and get these error outputs from rhn_register: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py", line 1023, in onSendPageNext up2dateAuth.updateLoginInfo() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 140, in updateLoginInfo raise up2dateErrors.AuthenticationError("Unable to authenticate") up2date_client.up2dateErrors.AuthenticationError: Unable to authenticate Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py", line 1048, in onRegFinishPagePrepare ret = rhnreg.finishMessage(self.systemId) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py", line 197, in finishMessage raise up2dateErrors.CommunicationError(f.faultString) up2date_client.up2dateErrors.CommunicationError: Error communicating with server. The message was: While running 'registration.finish_message': caught server.apacheRequest.UnknownXML : Invalid request received (function: registration.finish_message invalid). I am using up2date-3.9.28-2.
Upgrading to up2date-3.9.29-2 fixed this problem for me.