Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 19069
update agent fatal error
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:29:20 EDT
re: update agent When we run the update agent on our newly installed RHL7 it checks packages, retreive headers and then dies - There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was: Unable to access RPM package: ['sysstat', '3.2.4', '4'"]. We hit OK, the whole thing closes up and is gone. Tried a few times, tried after a re-boot, no change. We are on a PPro233, intel m/b, SMC (tulip) eth. Browsing is 100% over ADSL. Nothing other than clean install of Linux yesterday on this system. What else might you want to know? If he remembers the details East-Coast-Chris might be able to answer any questions if you have - (he and the rest of the installation support team have been great with their level of knowledge and attitude - we thank them). We are listed under "mkatzman". e-mail you have, phone 416.224.5115 x 240 Thanks in advance. Paul
Can you try it again now? I think were connecting to the RHN servers while we were in the process of updating the errata listing and you might have got a bad index.
I do not believe this is/was a temporary problem, as I've been encountering the same problem for about a week now. To reproduce it, all I have to do is to run up2date when I have updates, select at least one package to update, and click on "Next". During the "Retrieving Packages" phase, after the first package is downloaded, up2date bombs out with: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date/gui.py", line 350, in doRetrieval self.setProgress) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date/up2date.py", line 527, in getPackage raise CommunicationError(f.faultString) up2date.CommunicationError: Error communicating with server. The message was: Invalid RPM package requested: /var/up2date/packages/7.0/src/apache-1.3.14-2.*.rpm However, *sometimes* it does actually work. So far, I haven't been able to discern any pattern in anything I do during successful runs versus unsuccessful runs. I can work around this problem by using "up2date -l" to get the package list, and then downloading and installing them myself. (I always do the installs myself, because I want to know what scripts and triggers a package contains.) But it would be nice to have a solution for this.
I'm having exactly the same problem, both with up2date as distributed with Rh7 and with the updated up2date-2.0.6-1.
Ignoring for a moment that a leap of faith is needed to figure out that up2date has anything to do with the "RHN Registration" icon my desktop, upon running it I get the following error dialog: There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was: Unable to access RPM package: ['modutils','2.3.20','1',''] I click okay and everything disappears.
there was a problem with the server side code for retrieving source .rpm packages. It has been fixed.