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Description of problem:
Installing a package fails

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. unset DISPLAY
2. up2date <not yet istalled package>
	

Actual Results:  # up2date glut-devel

Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-8.0...
########################################

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-8.0...
########################################

Fetching rpm headers...

Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
########################################
glut-devel-3.7-8.i386.rpm:  ########################## Done.
Preparing              ########################################### [100%]

Installing...
   1:glut-devel             ########################################### [100%]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 801, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 573, in main
    fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 737, in batchRun
    batch.run()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 74, in run
    self.__installPackages()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 127, in
__installPackages
    self.kernelsToInstall = up2date.installPackages(self.packagesToInstall,
self.rpmCallback)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 545, in installPackages
    runTransaction(ts, rpmCallback)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 514, in runTransaction
    rhnPackageInfo.remoteAddPackages(addedPackages)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnPackageInfo.py", line 47, in
remoteAddPackages
    updateTransactions()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnPackageInfo.py", line 69, in
updateTransactions
    rollback = rollbacks.Rollback()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rollbacks.py", line 129, in __init__
    self.__genAvailableTidHdrDict()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rollbacks.py", line 163, in
__genAvailableTidHdrDict
    for (tid, hdr, filename) in transList:
TypeError: iteration over non-sequence
# cd /var/spool/up2date/
# rpm -e glut-devel
# rpm -Uhv glut-devel-3.7-8.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:glut-devel             ########################################### [100%]
#

Expected Results:  installation without Traceback

Additional info:

got same result with kernel-pcmcia-cs.