From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: In the last few days, I've started noticing that up2date fails about half the time on my RHEL3-U2 machines. I updated one of them to RHEl-U3 and it still has the problem. I do not think this is a duplicate of 130637. The backtrace is different, for one thing... My suspicion (given where the error occurs, and the fact that I have seen occasional failures of the rhn web interface since the upgrade on tuesday) that this error is somehow triggered by a server failure. If I run up2date with -vv, the 'D: logininfo:...' and 'D: availablePackageList::channels:' lines appear before the traceback occurs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.2.38-1 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. run up2date -u (or up2date up2date, or...) (the 'Expected' output below is for an already up-to-date system) Actual Results: https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1174, in ? sys.exit(main() or 0) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 772, in main fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run)) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1066, in batchRun batch.run() File "up2dateBatch.py", line 62, in run File "up2dateBatch.py", line 97, in __findPackagesToUpdate File "packageList.py", line 157, in addGlobs File "rhnPackageInfo.py", line 232, in getAvailablePackageList File "rhnPackageInfo.py", line 150, in availablePackageList File "repoDirector.py", line 64, in initRepoDirector File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/up2dateRepo.py", line 345, in register up2dateRepo = Up2dateRepo() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/up2dateRepo.py", line 304, in __init__ serverSettings) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/up2dateRepo.py", line 247, in getGETServer server= rpcServer.RetryGETServer(serverSettings.serverList.server(), File "rpcServer.py", line 103, in server IndexError: list index out of range Expected Results: Invalid group id server-cfg Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-ws-3... Fetching rpm headers... Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- All packages are currently up to date Additional info:
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