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Bug 1781887

Summary: Unexpected exception after (un)setting rhsm plugin disable envar in sles 12 hosts
Product: Red Hat Satellite Reporter: jcallaha
Component: Subscription ManagementAssignee: Jiri Hnidek <jhnidek>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: jcallaha
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Version: 6.7.0CC: jhnidek
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Description jcallaha 2019-12-10 20:12:48 UTC
Description of problem:
After setting or unsetting the environment variable to enable/disable the rhsm plugin, performing a 
    zypper clean --all 
and a 
    zypper lu 
shows the following exception:
Refreshing service 'rhsm'.
Unexpected exception.
: Section []: Line 1 contains garbage (no '=' or ':/?|,\' in key)
Please file a bug report about this.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Troubleshooting for instructions.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sles 12sp3: subscription-manager-1.25.20-3.sles12_3sat.x86_64
sles 12sp4: subscription-manager-1.25.20-2.sles12_4sat.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Register a sles 12sp3 or 12sp4 client to Satellite 6
2. set ZYPP_RHSM_PLUGIN_DISABLE=1
3. zypper clean --all
4. zypper lu

Actual results:
Refreshing service 'rhsm'.
Unexpected exception.
: Section []: Line 1 contains garbage (no '=' or ':/?|,\' in key)
Please file a bug report about this.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Troubleshooting for instructions.

Expected results:
No exception.

Additional info:
Performing another zypper lu doesn't show the problem, so this seems to be an issue with the intermittent state.

Comment 5 jcallaha 2020-02-26 14:11:20 UTC
Closing this for now, as I've been unable to reliably reproduce this issue.e