Description of problem:
After upgrading to 5.3 from 5.2, satellite-sync fails with:

09:29:30 
SYNC ERROR: unhandled exception occurred:

Exception reported from satellite.tc.redhat.com
Time: Mon Sep 14 09:29:30 2009
Exception type server.rhnSQL.sql_base.SQLError

Exception Handler Information
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/satellite-sync", line 142, in main
    return satsync.Runner().main()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 212, in main
    ret = method()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 286, in _step_channels
    self.syncer.process_channels()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 627, in process_channels
    orgid=OPTIONS.orgid or None)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/sync_handlers.py", line 221, in import_channels
    importer.run()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/server/importlib/importLib.py", line 628, in run
    self.submit()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/server/importlib/channelImport.py", line 184, in submit
    self.backend.processChannelProduct(channel)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/server/importlib/backend.py", line 1135, in processChannelProduct
    channel['channel_product_id'] = self.lookupChannelProduct(channel)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/server/importlib/backend.py", line 1205, in lookupChannelProduct
    return self.createChannelProduct(channel)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/server/importlib/backend.py", line 1220, in createChannelProduct
    beta = channel['channel_product_beta'])
  File "/usr/share/rhn/server/rhnSQL/sql_base.py", line 161, in execute
    return apply(self._execute_wrapper, (self._execute, ) + p, kw)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/server/rhnSQL/driver_cx_Oracle.py", line 118, in _execute_wrapper
    raise apply(sql_base.SQLError, ret)
SQLError: (1400, 'ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("RHNSAT"."RHNCHANNELPRODUCT"."VERSION")\n', 'INSERT INTO rhnChannelProduct (id, product, version, beta) VALUES (:id, :product, :version, :beta)')

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHN Satellite 5.3 i386.


Will attach sosreport.  I had to stop the rhn-satellite service as there were oracle processes in D state and sosreport warned that it might hang.