Bug 55694 - apparently abends updating grb
Summary: apparently abends updating grb
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: up2date
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adrian Likins
QA Contact: Jay Turner
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-11-05 01:22 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2015-01-07 23:52 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-11-05 22:40:35 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2001:119 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE New up2date and rhn_register clients available 2001-10-03 04:00:00 UTC

Description Need Real Name 2001-11-05 01:22:47 UTC 
Description of Problem:abend with the following message:
	
 Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py", line 786, in doInstallation
    up2date.installBootLoader(kernelsToInstall)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 2119, in
installBootLoader
    __install_grub(kernelList)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 2141, in
__install_grub
    ret  = grubcfg.installNewImages(kernelList,test=0)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/grubcfg.py", line 58, in
installNewImages
    header = findDepLocal(db,defaultImagePath)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 464, in
findDepLocal
    if dep[0] == '/':
IndexError: string index out of range



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Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2001-11-05 22:14:14 UTC 
Do you have a non linux system setup as the default in grub.conf?

Thats the scenario where I've seen this happen.

I have  a fix for that case that should be in the next version
of the client.
Comment 2 David M. Cook 2002-02-13 23:00:30 UTC 
Fixed in RHBA-2001-119:

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-119.html
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