From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686) Description of problem: I have updated as follows up2date to 2.5.3-0.6 newt is now at newt-0.50.22-2 I get the error shown below after entering page 2 [root@te2papeete updates]# /usr/sbin/rhn_register Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 119, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 100, in main tui.main() File "/usr/share/rhn/register/tui.py", line 1033, in main tui.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/register/tui.py", line 982, in run win = self.windows[index](self.screen, self) File "/usr/share/rhn/register/tui.py", line 590, in __init__ self.versionLabel2 = snack.Label(rhnreg.getVersion()) File "/usr/share/rhn/register/rhnreg.py", line 121, in getVersion index = db.findbyprovides("redhat-release")[0] IndexError: list index out of range How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1./usr/sbin/rhn_register 2.enter details 3.got to next page on page 2 Actual Results: root@te2papeete updates]# /usr/sbin/rhn_register Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 119, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 100, in main tui.main() File "/usr/share/rhn/register/tui.py", line 1033, in main tui.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/register/tui.py", line 982, in run win = self.windows[index](self.screen, self) File "/usr/share/rhn/register/tui.py", line 590, in __init__ self.versionLabel2 = snack.Label(rhnreg.getVersion()) File "/usr/share/rhn/register/rhnreg.py", line 121, in getVersion index = db.findbyprovides("redhat-release")[0] IndexError: list index out of range Additional info:
This is an artifact of a rpm db issued related to updating the db. try issuing this command: rpm --rebuilddb And trying this again.