I still haven't been able to get a satellite-sync to fully work
without something throwing a traceback.  This is the same error that
came up on the rhel2.1 box during a recent sync attempt.

17:49:29    Importing *relevant* package metadata: rhel-i386-as-3 (2238)
17:49:29    * WARNING: this may be a slow process.
            ________________________________________
Importing:  ######################################## - complete
18:48:02
18:48:02 Linking packages to channels
18:49:33 No handler for step source-packages
18:49:33
18:49:33 Importing channel errata
+++ sending log as an email +++
 
SYNC ERROR: unhandled exception occurred:
 
(Check logs/email for potentially more detail)


Here is the contents of the email:

SYNC ERROR: unhandled exception occurred:

Exception reported from rhnblade4.rhndev.redhat.com
Time: Fri Oct 22 18:49:41 2004
Exception type exceptions.AssertionError

Exception Handler Information
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/satellite-sync", line 128, in main
    return satsync.Runner().main()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 153, in main
    ret = method()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 254, in
_step_errata
    self.syncer.import_errata()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 1605, in
import_errata
    assert erratum is not None
AssertionError

See also: 136749, from the previous sync attempt