Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 111863
up2date failure after upgrading up2date components
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:53 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Description of problem: After an initial installation of AS2.1, we tried up2date. Of course, we got the SSL error, so we downloaded up2date-2.8.46.3-1.2.1AS and the related components (rhn_register, ..._gnome, et al). Now, after an "up2date -p", any attempt to do an update crashes with a python traceback: [root@srv01 root]# up2date -u Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 781, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 569, in main pkgNames, fullUpdate, dryRun = dry_run)) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 724, in batchRun batch.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 57, in run self.__findPackagesToUpdate() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 89, in __findPackagesToUpdate plist.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 85, in run self.addObsoletePackages(obsList) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 109, in addObsoletePackages for p in obsoletePackages: TypeError: loop over non-sequence Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-2.8.46.3-1.2.1AS How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do a fresh AS2.1 install 2. Download and "rpm -Fvh" the 2.8.45.3-1.2.1AS components 3. "up2date -p" 4. "up2date -u".....kerPOW! Actual Results: The traceback in the description. Expected Results: I'd expect an updated system. This certainly seems poor design. You can't update an AS2.1 system without up2date, and up2date is itself flakey as all get out. Additional info:
make sure the boxes that show this error have a channel assigned to them. Common cause of missing channels is lack of proper RHN entitlements for the channels in questions. newer clients also handle this case more gracefully.