Description of problem: I installed rhel 2.1 u6 (all package groups selected) on my rx2600. I do not haveany significant experience with up2date. I got it configured, though, and ran 'up2date -u'. Then I got more advice from Glen and visited RHN on the Web. I changed my system (lincoln.test) to subscribe to the beta channel. While I was there, I also selected the Errata RHSA-2005:017-14 (Updated Itanium kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities). Next I returned to my system and ran 'up2date -ud'. (I want to save the RPMs and thought that would be a good way to do it. Next I ran 'up2date -u'. That's when up2date crashed on me. Attachment will follow. How reproducible: Didn't try. Steps to Reproduce: see description
Created attachment 112239 [details] log of the traceback
This generally means there was a problem with the network connection. The problem was probably transient. I am closing this bug as such, please reopen if you are able to reproduce it.