Description of problem: up2date crashes when running attempting an update: Fetching package list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3... Fetching rpm headers... ######################################## Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- libxml2 2.5.10 6 i386 libxml2-devel 2.5.10 6 i386 Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1190, in ? sys.exit(main() or 0) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 776, in main fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run)) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1069, in batchRun batch.run() File "up2dateBatch.py", line 70, in run File "up2dateBatch.py", line 142, in __dryRun File "up2date.py", line 384, in dryRun File "depSolver.py", line 357, in setup File "depSolver.py", line 448, in __add TypeError: 'in <string>' requires character as left operand Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.2.5-1 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. up2date -u 2. 3. Actual results: crash Expected results: complete update Additional info:
Also when trying to schedule a package update via RHN, the scheduled action will fail with the following output: Client execution returned "Fatal error in Python code occured [[6]]" (code -1)
Ahh. Easy workaround. Add a semicolon to the end of the line for pkgsToInstallNotUpdate in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date That is expected to be a list not a string by the code. I'll take a look and see if I can make it except either.
okay, 4.2.9 should handle this either way
thank you