Created attachment 316797 [details] crash dump on the RHEL v5 server. Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Description of problem: The "Software Updater" application is throwing the exception (see attachment for details) when launched. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Either try: a) Applications->System Tools->Software Updater or b) yum check-update or yum update from the command line. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Listed under "How Reproducible" section. Actual results: Expected results: The "Software Updater" should contact the RHN server successfully and show the list of available updates for the RHEL system. Additional info: The activation and registration were successful.
having the same, here the crash information Component: Software Updater Summary: TBd05087db rhnplugin.py:298:_noExceptionWrappingGet:UnboundLocalError: local variable 'result' referenced before assignment Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 438, in _apply self.applyChanges(self.mainwin) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 561, in applyChanges dlpkgs = self.downloadPackages(mainwin) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 273, in downloadPackages probs = self.downloadPkgs(dlpkgs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 690, in downloadPkgs cache=po.repo.http_caching != 'none', File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 447, in getPackage cache=cache 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 298, 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-client-5/getPackage/hal-0.5.8.1-35.el5.i386.rpm start: None url: None text: (6/314): hal-0.5.8.1-35.el5.i386.rpm self: rhel-x86_64-client-5 cache: True reget: simple server: https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-client-5 relative: getPackage/hal-0.5.8.1-35.el5.i386.rpm headers: (('X-RHN-Auth-Expire-Offset', '3600.0'), ('X-RHN-Auth-User-Id', ''), ('X-RHN-Auth', '7wzt1n10Is9LxWSJ8ifNkw=='), ('X-RHN-Auth-Server-Time', '1221749947.64'), ('X-RHN-Server-Id', 1013761084)) checkfunc: (<bound method PackageUpdater.verifyPkg of <__main__.PackageUpdater object at 0x174f9690>>, (<yum.sqlitesack.YumAvailablePackageSqlite instance at 0x1b7d0b48>, 1), {}) copy_local: 0 end: None local: //var/cache/yum/rhel-x86_64-client-5/packages/hal-0.5.8.1-35.el5.i386.rpm
This is already fixed in yum-rhn-plugin, not sure which version though.
If I remember correctly, the fix for this went out in RHEL 5.2. Typically this error message is hiding a network or configuration error. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 428323 ***