From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: Running up2date-gnome since the release of RHSA-2004:120-08 results in a crash with the following traceback: SSL exception (104, 'Connection reset by peer') SSL exception (-1, 'Unexpected EOF') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py", line 1361, in onChannelsPageNext self.pkgList = self.pList.getPackagesToInstall() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 521, in getPackagesToInstall result = self.__skipPackages(result) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 550, in __skipPackages packageList = self.__skipFiles(packageList) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 571, in __skipFiles ignoreMsgCallback = self.ignoreMsgCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 610, in buildHeaderList hdr = headerList[pkg] File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/headers.py", line 37, in __getitem__ self.__retrievePackage(item) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/headers.py", line 42, in __retrievePackage hdr, sourceType = rpcServer.doCall(self.repos.getHeader, item) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 112, in doCall ret = apply(method, args, kwargs) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoDirector.py", line 31, in getHeader return self.handlers[channel['type']].getHeader(pkg, msgCallback, progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 210, in getHeader header = source.getHeader(pkg, progressCallback = progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/up2dateRepo.py", line 102, in getHeader rpmSourceUtils.saveHeader(hdr) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSourceUtils.py", line 31, in saveHeader os.write(fd, hdr.unload()) rpm.error: can't unload bad header // The problem seems to occur with openssl-devel-0.9.7a-33.4.i386.hdr. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.2.5-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run up2date-gnome. 2. Observe header download followed by crash. 3. Additional info:
Looks like a bad header is in the cache, try: rm -rf /var/spool/up2date/*.hdr
Removal of relevant headers(openssl-0.9.7a-33.4.i686.hdr, openssl-devel-0.9.7a-33.4.i386.hdr) from up2date cache has now resolved this issue. I had previously tried this on a number of occasions without success. Oh well. Thank you Adrian.