Bug 369831

Created attachment 250341 [details]
Dump for pup problem

I have this same problem in my RHEL5 desktop.  The dump from pup is nearly
identical except for the line number it fails at:

Summary: TB9536d0ca <string>:64:__iter__:SyntaxError: not well-formed (invalid
token): line 21895, column 66

This is broken metadata being given out by RHN

*** Bug 370371 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 370641 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

A workaround has been put in place.  The advisories with characters causing
broken metadata (<, >, &) have been repushed with those characters escaped. 
Please confirm if this fixes the problem for you.  Thanks.

pup runs successfully for me now.

It gets further now. It lists the packages it wishes to update. Many packages,
although the icon on the panel says there are two packages.

But when I press the "Apply Updates" button, it took so long to do anything I
almost terminated it as being stuck (several minutes). Now it seems to be
downloading, but at no where near the maximum rate of my high speed internet
connection. With lots of gaps. Yet the Internet seems ok. Here are my speed test
results from here in New Jersey to Washington, DC.

Download Speed: 19760 kbps (2470 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 4365 kbps (545.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

And to Atlanta, GA.

Download Speed: 18455 kbps (2306.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 4182 kbps (522.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

So the server must be running very slowly, or be overloaded. It is now about
1:35PM EST.

I finally got the following error:

[('file /usr/sbin/sysreport conflicts between attempted installs of
sysreport-1.4.3-13.el5 and sos-1.7-9.1.el5', (6, '/usr/sbin/sysreport', 0L)),
('file /usr/share/sysreport/functions conflicts between attempted installs of
sysreport-1.4.3-13.el5 and sos-1.7-9.1.el5', (6,
'/usr/share/sysreport/functions', 0L))]

Regarding the sos/sysreport conflict... are you running client or server?  Which
architecture are you on?  Finally, what do you get from "rpm -q sos sysreport
yum"?  Thanks

jeandavid8: in addition to the feedback requested in comment#9, can you also
provide the output from:

$ echo "repo list" | yum shell

Thanks!

$ rpm -q sos sysreport
sos-1.3-1.el5
sysreport-1.4.3-10.el5

$ echo "repo list" | yum shell
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Yum Shell
> repo id              repo name                                 status
pidgin               Pidgin for RHEL/CentOS 5Server - i386     enabled
pidgin-debuginfo     Pidgin for RHEL/CentOS 5Server - i386 -   disabled
pidgin-source        Pidgin for RHEL/CentOS 5Server - i386 -   disabled
rhel-debuginfo       Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Server - i386   disabled
> Leaving Shell

I am not sure what that is about, since I do not run CentOS 5 on any machine. On
my other machine, I run CentOS 4, but not Pidgin.
This system is registered with RHN. I normally get updates automatically
installed (usually overnight). I can log into RHN whenever I like. This page

https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/YourRhn.do

says, among other things,

No inactive systems.

All of your systems are actively checking into RHN at this time. You can view a
list of all of your systems at Systems > All.

I have received a bunch of updates, including this one:

https://rhn.redhat.com/network/systems/details/history/event.pxt?sid=1007655001&hid=148649097

which states

This action will be executed after 2007-11-08 08:47:24 EST.

This action's status is: Failed.
The client picked up this action on 2007-11-08 11:54:17 EST.
The client completed this action on 2007-11-08 11:55:03 EST.
Client execution returned "Fatal error in Python code occured [[6]]" (code -1)
Errata Affected:

    * RHSA-2007:1027-6 (Important: tetex security update)


I am running Server RHEL5 from Red Hat on this machine. It has dual Intel Xeon
3.06 GHz Hyperthreaded processors, 8 GBytes RAM, 6 10,000 rpm Ultra/320 LVD SCSI
hard drives.

In case this helps, ...

Kernel:  	 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5PAE
RHN System ID: 	1007655001

Thank you for the quick response and all of the information.  A couple more
queries please:

$ yum list | egrep '(sos|sysreport)'
$ rpm -q redhat-release

$ yum list | egrep '(sos|sysreport)'
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Error: Cannot access repository dir //var/cache/yum/pidgin/headers

Tried over as root:
trillian:root[/var/cache/yum/pidgin]#  yum list | egrep '(sos|sysreport)'
sos.noarch                               1.3-1.el5              installed       
sysreport.noarch                         1.4.3-10.el5           installed       
sos.noarch                               1.7-9.1.el5            rhel-i386-server
sysreport.noarch                         1.4.3-13.el5           rhel-i386-server

$ rpm -q redhat-release
redhat-release-5Server-5.0.0.9

$ yum list | egrep '(sos|sysreport)'
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Error: Cannot access repository dir //var/cache/yum/pidgin/headers

Tried over as root:
trillian:root[/var/cache/yum/pidgin]#  yum list | egrep '(sos|sysreport)'
sos.noarch                               1.3-1.el5              installed       
sysreport.noarch                         1.4.3-10.el5           installed       
sos.noarch                               1.7-9.1.el5            rhel-i386-server
sysreport.noarch                         1.4.3-13.el5           rhel-i386-server

$ rpm -q redhat-release
redhat-release-5Server-5.0.0.9

I am unable to reproduce the issue.  At this point, your best bet is to follow
up with support.  They will be better suited to help track down the cause of the
problem.  Please login at www.redhat.com/support and you will find the options
for engaging Red Hat support.  Thank you.

Closing bug since it cannot be reproduced.