From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: After installing null using kickstart and FTP, I tried running "up2date --nox -p" and received a screen full of traceback messages (below). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhnlib-0.8-13 up2date-2.9.46-1 up2date-gnome-2.9.46-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in as root. 2. up2date --nox -p Actual Results: # up2date --nox -p Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 773, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 315, in main up2dateAuth.updateLoginInfo() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 110, in updateLoginInfo loginInfo = login() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 99, in login loginInfo = rpcServer.doCall(server.up2date.login, systemId) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 110, in doCall ret = apply(method, args, kwargs) 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 117, in _request request = self._req_body(params, methodname) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 103, in _req_body return xmlrpclib.dumps(params, methodname, encoding=self._encoding) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 763, in dumps data = m.dumps(params) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 454, in dumps self.__dump(v) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 465, in __dump raise TypeError, "cannot marshal %s objects" % type(value) TypeError: cannot marshal <type 'NoneType'> objects # Expected Results: I expected one of the following: 1. A message that said that a package (RPM) was missing. 2. A message that says that I cannot run up2date from a cloned (kickstarted) computer. 3. A message that my RHN profile had been updated. Additional info: The following package lines appear in my kickstart file: %packages @Printing Support @X Window System @GNOME Desktop Environment @Graphical Internet @Text-based Internet @Sound and Video @Graphics @Office/Productivity @Engineering and Scientific @Editors @System Tools @Administration Tools @Games and Entertainment @Development Tools @Development Libraries @Kernel Development @X Software Development @GNOME Software Development
traceback should be fixed in 2.9.51