Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 23221
up2date fails on run, AttributeError: Up2dateConfig (wrong config is read)
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:42:41 EST
up2date consistently fails to run on RH 62. up2date version: Name : up2date Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.1.7 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 0.6.x Build Date: Thu 21 Dec 2000 08:25:52 PM IST Install date: Tue 02 Jan 2001 09:29:25 PM IST Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: up2date-2.1.7-0.6.x.src.rpm Size : 219264 License: GPL Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : Automatically update RPMs for a Red Hat Linux Systemrequires Description : Errors are from any utility that uses up2date configs, like: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date-config", line 312, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/up2date-config", line 307, in main gui = Gui() File "/usr/sbin/up2date-config", line 55, in __init__ self.cfg = config.Up2dateConfig() AttributeError: Up2dateConfig and same error from up2date. Seems to be because python (python-1.5.2-27.6.x) also has config.py and the script includes that config.py instead of up2date's. If I change config to config2 in every place in up2date (imports and config.Up2dateConfig()), it works.
that shouldn't matter. Works fine on my RHL 6.2 box. Can I see the output of: rpm -V up2date rpm -V up2date-gnome rpm -V python
rpm -V up2date SM?....T c /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date missing /usr/share/rhn/up2date/config.pyc S.5....T /usr/share/rhn/up2date/translate.pyc S.5....T /usr/share/rhn/up2date/up2date.py SM5....T /usr/share/rhn/up2date/up2date.pyc rpm -V up2date-gnome S.5....T /usr/sbin/up2date-config S.5....T /usr/share/rhn/up2date/checklist.pyc S.5....T /usr/share/rhn/up2date/configdlg.py S.5....T /usr/share/rhn/up2date/configdlg.pyc S.5....T /usr/share/rhn/up2date/gui.pyc S.5....T /usr/share/rhn/up2date/progress.pyc rpm -V python did not produce any output
Assigned QA to jturner
You are missing the compiled up2date python config class: missing /usr/share/rhn/up2date/config.pyc
Doh. Yes, it is missing, because *I had to remove it to make it run*. OK, seems I did not make myself clear. Python has config. up2date has config. When up2date uses "config" it thinks it's config for up2date, but apparently it's config for python. If I change every reference of config to config2, it works. I'm not sure if removing config.pyc necessary to make it run, but renaming was necessary. I guess these two lines are the cause: sys.path.append("/usr/share/rhn/up2date/") import config I'm not a big Python pro, but I imply that if you append directory to the path, it is searched after all others? And if some previous path has config, the import will be taken from there? Am I wrong?
Look: Something is _different_ about your system than ANY other Red Hat Linux system out there. I'm not sure what, but something. We don't have this problem on any of our test boxes. THOUSANDS of other people are using up2date without this issue. This config class you speak of that python has -- we don't ship any "config.py" class with python by default. so you have added something to your system.
More info. [pbrown@xanadu pbrown]$ rpm -q python python-1.5.2-27.6.x [pbrown@xanadu pbrown]$ rpm -V python [pbrown@xanadu pbrown]$ rpm -ql python | grep config [pbrown@xanadu pbrown]$ rpm -ql python |grep config [pbrown@xanadu pbrown]$