Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 65492
Get runtime error when trying to run rhn_register
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:56:17 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.2 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020510 Description of problem: Recently upgraded a system from RHL 6.2 to 7.3. I deleted the original profile for the machine from RHN and proceeded to run rhn_register on the new system to register it but received a runtime error. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run rhn_regsiter (on system without the X Window System) 2.Hit next twice 3.runtime error appears Actual Results: It crashes with a runtime error. Expected Results: It should let me register the system. Additional info: Here's the error I got. Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 226, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 207, in main tui.main() File "/usr/share/rhn/register/tui.py", line 1042, in main tui.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/register/tui.py", line 986, in run win = self.windows[index](self.screen, self) File "/usr/share/rhn/register/tui.py", line 138, in __init__ self.userNameEntry = snack.Entry(20) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/snack.py", line 142, in __init__ self.w.scaleSet(amount) TypeError: function requires exactly 6 arguments; 5 given - - - - I removed rhn_register and up2date and reinstalled them a number of times but got the consistant error.
I'm observing the same behavior today. Red Hat 6.2 -> Red Hat 7.3 upgrade and then rhn_register does this. Same trace. Like you I also tried reinstalling rhn_register, up2date, and python-xmlrpc to no avail. newt and slang are the latest versions and verified (-V) so I don't know what else to try.
Well, it is still broken for me and I've been updating that machine (gasp) by hand with RPM... but I wish I had a solution to this problem. (sigh)
Aha! Do this: mv /usr/lib/python1.5/snack.pyc /tmp It's an old pyc left from 6.x I guess. While it's there, python finds it and runs it instead of the new newt files which are now under /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/. I'm a little concerned that nobody at RH tested a 6.2->7.3 upgrade followed by registration. ;-)
Man, here it is Jan. 23rd, 2003... and I'm just now noticing that you posted a fix back in Sept. In seconds, it works great. Somehow I missed the email Bugzilla must have sent me. I wonder if Red Hat will fix this bug. I'm glad your work-around works!