From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205 Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.up2date -u 2. 3. Actual Results: [jchotz@vmlinux jchotz]$ up2date -u Password: Retrieving list of all available packages... ######################################## Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1014, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 341, in main sys.exit(batchRun(argObj.getLong("list"), pkgNames, fullUpdate)) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 900, in batchRun printCallback, percentCallback) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 820, in runInteractive progressCallback = percentCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 1534, in +getUpdatedPackageList pkgList = getAvailablePackageList(msgCallback,progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 692, in +getAvailablePackageList tmp_args,tmp_method = xmlrpclib.loads(blip) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xmlrpclib.py", line 535, in loads return u.close(), u.getmethodname() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xmlrpclib.py", line 364, in close raise ResponseError() xmlrpclib.ResponseError: <xmlrpclib.ResponseError instance at 81ded00> Expected Results: updates applied or an error message Additional info: redhat-release-7.1-1 up2date-2.7.11-7.x.1
should be fixed in cvs now, and should be fixed in the next version of the client. What happened is it looks like you had a corrupt package list cache file. This probabaly happened because of a network error. The next version of the client will detect this and fetch a new version of the list in that case.
Verified by "corrupting" the package cache in /var/spool/up2date by removing the last 20k or so of the file with dd.