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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461; .NET 
CLR 1.0.3705)

Description of problem:
Trying to get rhn_register to run.
Hit (default) Next button & program promptly crashes

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Simply run rhn_register
2.(The first time, after installing, it asks for network settings to be 
confirmed - Leaving at default values, which has been ok on previous versions 
for me)
3.Hit the 'Next' button	

Actual Results:  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 228, in ?
    main()		
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 209, 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 83, in __init__
    tb = snack.Textbox(size[0]-10, size[1]-14, rhnreg.privacyText(), 1)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/register/rhnreg.py", line 447, in privacyText
    return doCall(s.registration.privacy_statement)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/register/rhnreg.py", line 155, in doCall
    ret = apply(method, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 821, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 411, in _request
    verbose=self._verbose
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 236, in request
    fd = resp.decode(fd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 617, in decode
    self.data = obj.decompress(self.data) + obj.flush()
TypeError: decompress() argument 1 must be string or read-only buffer, not None


Additional info:

Minimum install using text mode installer.
Have tried re-installing from scratch afew times and get this problem every 
time.