Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 135111
up2date --whatprovides crashes when server connection refused (urllib2.URLError)
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:51 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: today I entered the command: $ up2date --whatprovides=sendmail-cf It connected to a mirror didn't work and the connection was refused. Instead of handling this error (as any network client should do) it crashed ans spit out a stack trace. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.3.19-1 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. up2date --whatprovides=sendmail-cf 2. retry a until mirror.eas.muohio.edu is selected (or any other non-working mirror) Actual Results: $ up2date --whatprovides=sendmail-cf http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-2 using mirror: http://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/ http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2 using mirror: http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/2/i386/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1271, in ? sys.exit(main() or 0) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 704, in main return whatprovides(cfg["depslist"]) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 941, in whatprovides availlist = rhnPackageInfo.getAvailablePackageList() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnPackageInfo.py", line 219, in getAvailablePackageList package_list = availablePackageList( File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnPackageInfo.py", line 153, in availablePackageList progressCallback = progressCallback) 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 20, in listPackages return self.handlers[channel['type']].listPackages(channel, msgCallback, progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 226, in listPackages msgCallback, progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumRepo.py", line 201, in listPackages agent = "Up2date %s/Yum" % up2dateUtils.version()) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/urlUtils.py", line 324, in fetchUrl endRange=end) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/urlUtils.py", line 117, in open_resource return opener.open(request) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 326, in open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 306, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 901, in http_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTP, req) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 886, in do_open raise URLError(err) urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')> Expected Results: (1) If the mirror was available, obviously this should have succeeded. (2) If the connection was refused, *at a minimum* it should catch this error and print a useful error message. Simply crashing is not reasonable behavior for a network client. (3) Even better, why doesn't it retry on a different mirror? Additional info: I often find that up2date fails when mirror.eas.muohio.edu is selected. Why is this non-working mirror provided to up2date?
Fedora Core 2 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 FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
As of FC3/latest - up2date-4.3.47-5 - it no longer crashes, but it also no longer seems to be functioning. I've tried the original command $ up2date --whatprovides=sendmail-cf as well as a few others e.g. $ up2date --whatprovides=rpm $ up2date --whatprovides=up2date And none of these seem to return anything at all. Just a couple of server tries, but no packages or dependencies are listed. e.g. $ up2date --whatprovides=up2date http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-3 using mirror: http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3 using mirror: http://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/fedora/updates/3/i386/ $
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!
I am promoting this to FC5 because now when you try the examples in comment #2, you get not response at all! $ up2date --whatprovides=sendmail-cf $ up2date --whatprovides=rpm $ up2date --whatprovides=up2date <...crickets...>
There is no up2date in FC5...
OK... Hmm... Well, I am running FC5 and up2date is definitely there (if not working properly). Perhaps this redefines this bug?
It may have not gotten removed when you did an upgrade? I always remove up2date, so I'm not sure myself.
Here are all the rpms from FC5: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/ up2date is clearly not there.
Fair enough. up2date is not running properly because it is no longer supported. I will be happy to resubmit this issue as an installer/upgrade issue. I don't know which tool that should be - anaconda? yum? or something else.
Removed programs are generally not removed by anaconda on upgrade, since the user may still want them. (It would be a bigger headache if they were removed.) pirut replaces up2date, but does not explicitly Obsolete it for various reasons, hence it's not removed. Please try with pirut/pup.