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Bug 651857

Summary: rhn-channel: tracebacks at various options combination
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Petr Sklenar <psklenar>
Component: rhn-client-toolsAssignee: Miroslav Suchý <msuchy>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Minar <mminar>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.0CC: bochecha, jhutar, lkocman, mkoci, mminar, msuchy, slukasik, vikumar
Target Milestone: rc   
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Fixed In Version: rhn-client-tools-1.0.0-50 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 651858 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-05-19 13:05:19 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 582655, 651858    

Description Petr Sklenar 2010-11-10 13:38:12 UTC
Description of problem:
rhn-channel: tracebacks at various options combination


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhel5: rhn-setup-0.4.20-45.el5
rhel6: rhn-setup-1.0.0-38.el6.noarch


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. `rhn-channel -u username -p password -c my-child-channel`

Actual results:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn-channel", line 92, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn-channel", line 86, in main
    s = rhnserver.RhnServer()
NameError: global name 'rhnserver' is not defined

Expected results:
it should write smth like: "specify --add or --remove"


2. missing channel name after options -a and -r
`rhn-channel -u username -p password -a`
OR
`rhn-channel -u username -p password -r`

actual result:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn-channel", line 92, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn-channel", line 74, in main
    subscribeChannels(OPTIONS.channel, OPTIONS.user, OPTIONS.password)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnChannel.py", line 143, in subscribeChannels
    passwd)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 50, in __call__
    return rpcServer.doCall(method, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 204, in doCall
    ret = method(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 38, in _request1
    ret = self._request(methodname, params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 350, in _request
    request = self._req_body(params, methodname)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 231, in _req_body
    return xmlrpclib.dumps(params, methodname, encoding=self._encoding)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1029, in dumps
    data = m.dumps(params)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 603, in dumps
    dump(v, write)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 615, in __dump
    f(self, value, write)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 619, in dump_nil
    raise TypeError, "cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled"
TypeError: cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled

Expected results:
nice message, smth like:
ERROR: these arguments make no sense in this context (try --help)




Additional info:

Comment 1 Milan Zázrivec 2010-11-24 10:48:38 UTC
*** Bug 656840 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Milan Zázrivec 2011-01-02 11:45:52 UTC
*** Bug 666410 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Miroslav Suchý 2011-01-14 13:43:13 UTC
first problem fixed in commit c4713ec3aa8d03c0a2a22cd3bbe21c3d89022499
second in commit 539f6518d36303a69360aa7a3b98372eaa3a1a3e
both in spacewalk.git

Comment 4 Miroslav Suchý 2011-01-14 13:46:54 UTC
cherry picked to satellite.git as commits:
b75f83700baf43d08eb95b9a6b4ad87d50c0f287
364e4dff1fc411138781b765f1e595288d4e5275

Comment 6 Milan Zázrivec 2011-01-20 09:16:21 UTC
*** Bug 671052 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Miroslav Suchý 2011-02-23 15:56:00 UTC
There was typo in variable name. Fixed in spacewalk.git in commit f332b95f360a59ab2bc4f2300d13c44741930b81
Cherrypicked to satellite.git as commit c2046c15d67772064172f00fa628e18b8848f3ad

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:05:19 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0565.html