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Bug 433760

Summary: installer hangs when running pup
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Need Real Name <vidal>
Component: rhn-client-toolsAssignee: John Matthews <jmatthew>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Priority: low    
Version: 5.1.zCC: cperry
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Need Real Name 2008-02-21 10:54:46 UTC 
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Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.type the command pup
2.
3.

Actual Results:
an error occurs

Expected Results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Need Real Name 2008-02-21 10:56:45 UTC 
Created attachment 295496 [details]
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Comment 2 Clifford Perry 2009-02-20 21:52:29 UTC 
This was caused by a temporary server side issue with RHN and not the client, reporting the error back. This is not a bug with client side. 

[cperry@cperry ~]$ cat bug-21-02 
Component: Software Updater
Summary: TB7e17c70f rhnplugin.py:235:_getFile:RepoError: failed to retrieve repodata/updateinfo.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-server-5
error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 668, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 664, in main
    pup.run()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 499, in run
    self.doRefresh()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 324, in doRefresh
    self.populateUpdates()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 380, in populateUpdates
    self.updateMetadata.add(repo)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/update_md.py", line 228, in add
    md = obj.retrieveMD(mdtype)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 622, in retrieveMD
    cache=self.http_caching == 'all')
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 235, in _getFile
    raise yum.Errors.RepoError, \
RepoError: failed to retrieve repodata/updateinfo.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-server-5
error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum

Local variables in innermost frame:
e: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
url: None
text: None
self: rhel-x86_64-server-5
cache: False
reget: None
relative: repodata/updateinfo.xml.gz
start: None
checkfunc: (<bound method RhnRepo.checkMD of <rhnplugin.RhnRepo object at 0xc603ad0>>, ('updateinfo',), {})
copy_local: 1
end: None
local: //var/cache/yum/rhel-x86_64-server-5/updateinfo.xml.gz
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2009-02-20 22:53:13 UTC 
Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal
this decision by reopening this request.