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Description of problem:
I am able to initially register this computer with redhat using the "software updater" but after that I can't pull packages with yum or re-start the software updater. When I try either it gives me the same stack trace:



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.0.1-5.el5

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Software Updater or yum
2. voila!
3.

Actual Results:
It crashed

Expected Results:
I should have pulled info from redhat

Additional info:
Component: Software Manager
Summary: TBfb95fe59 rhnplugin.py:303:_noExceptionWrappingGet:UnboundLocalError: local variable 'result' referenced before assignment

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 453, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 449, in main
    pm.run()
  File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 358, in run
    self.doRefresh()
  File "/usr/sbin/pirut", line 373, in doRefresh
    self.reposSetup(pbar)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 146, in reposSetup
    self.doRepoSetup(thisrepo)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 299, in doRepoSetup
    repo.setup(self.conf.cache)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 503, in setup
    self._loadRepoXML(text=self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 530, in _loadRepoXML
    cache=self.http_caching == 'all')
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 209, in _getFile
    start, end, copy_local, checkfunc, text, reget, cache)
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 303, in _noExceptionWrappingGet
    return result
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'result' referenced before assignment

Local variables in innermost frame:
remote: https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-server-5/repodata/repomd.xml
start: None
url: None
text: rhel-x86_64-server-5
self: rhel-x86_64-server-5
cache: False
reget: None
server: https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-server-5
relative: repodata/repomd.xml
headers: (('X-RHN-Auth-Expire-Offset', '3600.0'), ('X-RHN-Auth-User-Id', ''), ('X-RHN-Auth', 'qJ6uTE2ldiPgMr+AlE/QWA=='), ('X-RHN-Auth-Server-Time', '1198273445.87'), ('X-RHN-Server-Id', 1009202644), ('Pragma', 'no-cache'))
checkfunc: (<bound method RhnRepo._checkRepoXML of <rhnplugin.RhnRepo object at 0xff6e910>>, (), {})
copy_local: 1
end: None
local: //var/cache/yum/rhel-x86_64-server-5/repomd.xml