Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 130835
mysterious affliction strikes rhn-applet
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:47 EST
Description of problem: Every time I am trying to run rhn-applet-tui I am seeing the following: # rhn-applet-tui /root was not found, creating Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/rhn-applet-tui", line 103, in ? main(original_arg_list) File "/usr/bin/rhn-applet-tui", line 65, in main ignored_package_str = rhn_utils.get_user_config("IgnoredPackages") File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_utils.py", line 95, in get_user_config user_config_obj.init() File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_utils.py", line 78, in init self.save() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/config.py", line 183, in save os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(self.fileName),0757) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/os.py", line 154, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/root' "/root was not found, creating"???? To make the matter more mysterious a similarly configured x86_64 does not show up anything of that sort. I am not sure when this started. I noticed that only today and I do not recall anything like in the past with this particular version of rhn-applet installed on 2004/Mar/15. Underlying Python libraries were changed last time on 2004/Aug/14 though. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhn-applet-2.1.7-1.1 How reproducible: Always on x86.
Ah, mystery solved. I noticed that /root/.rnh-applet.conf was missing (it got accidentally deleted in some "small catastrophe") and after I copied it from elsewhere rhn-applet starts. But this is surely a weird reaction and an error message in a situation of that sort.
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
rhn-applet was replaced by pirut and put (package pirut) as of FC5. Only FC5 and FC6 are currently fully supported; FC3 and FC4 are supported for security fixes only. If this bug occurs in FC3 or FC4 and is a security bug, please change the product to Fedora Extras and the version to match. If you can verify that the bug exists in RHEL as well, please change the product and version appropriately. The codebase for pirut and pup is quite different, but if a similar bug exists in pirut and pup in FC5 or FC6, please change the product to pirut and the version appropriately and update the bug report. We apologize that the bug was not fixed before now. The status will be changed to NEEDINFO, and if the bug is not updated with evidence that it is a security bug or a bug that affects RHEL, it will be closed. Note that rhn-applet may still be present on upgraded systems, and in general will not function correctly on such systems. That is not a bug; anaconda does not generally erase removed packages upon upgrades.