Created attachment 336476 [details] screenshot of TUI debug message Description of problem: rhn_register fails when serverurl is not written in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhnlib-2.1.4-4.el4 up2date-4.8.1-27.el4 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. server parent not configured in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date 2. rhn_register --serverUrl=http://xmlrpc.rhn.webqa.redhat.com/XMLRPC Actual results: TUI> some debug message in background, similar to GUI traceback, see attached screenshot GUI> traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 259, in ? server = rpcServer.getServer() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 191, in getServer password=proxyPassword) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 153, in __init__ type = (string.lower(type)).strip() File "/usr/lib64/python2.3/string.py", line 55, in lower return s.lower() AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lower' Expected results: TUI&GUI work Additional info:
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