Description of problem: An error occurs during the RHN registration process. After I click 'Forward' in the "Choose an update location" screen, a dialog appears stating: "There was an error while applying your choice. This error shouldn't have happened. If you'd like to help us improve this program, please file a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com. Including the relevant parts of '/var/log/up2date' would be very helpful. Thanks!" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I'm running Desktop RHEL 5.1 How reproducible: This happens every time I try to register. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Type rhn_register in terminal window 2. Click 'Forward' 2 times 3. Error occurs Additional info: from /var/log/up2date [Tue Aug 5 10:50:18 2014] rhn_register Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnregGui.py", line 1764, in callAndFilterExceptions return function() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnregGui.py", line 320, in _chooseServerPageApply rhnreg.privacyText() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py", line 307, in privacyText return s.registration.privacy_statement() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 50, in __call__ return rpcServer.doCall(method, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 194, in doCall ret = method(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__ return self.__send(self.__name, args) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 38, in _request1 ret = self._request(methodname, params) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 319, in _request request, verbose=self._verbose) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 170, in request headers, fd = req.send_http(host, handler) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 697, in send_http self._connection.connect() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/connections.py", line 195, in connect self.sock.init_ssl() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/SSL.py", line 76, in init_ssl self._ctx.load_verify_locations(f) OpenSSL.SSL.Error: []
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