This is Seawolf installed with up2date against ftp.beta [root@laptop /root]# up2date --whatprovides bash bash-2.04-21 [root@laptop /root]# up2date --whatprovides dcopserver Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 859, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 814, in main return whatprovides(depslist) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 403, in whatprovides provides = up2date.solveDep(deps_list) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date/up2date.py", line 888, in solveDep raise CommunicationError(f.faultString) up2date.CommunicationError: Error communicating with server. The message was: An unexpected error has occured while processing your request. Please try again later or submit a bug report tp rhns_help. If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include details of what were you trying to do when this error occured and details on how to reproduce this problem. Could not solve dependency dcopserver
This is an issue with the beta server and not with up2date itself. I am able to run 'up2date --whatprovides dcopserver' against the internal test machines (which have the same code base as the live servers) and get back a null list.
so what are we supposed to file against with up2date server problems? FWIW, Adrian wanted me to create this bugzilla entry, although I'm not sure why