From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: up2date is broken after the python packages were updated/installed through the same up2date: $# up2date --install pine Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-8.0... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-8.0... ######################################## Fetching rpm headers... 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 55, in run self.__findPackagesToUpdate() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 89, in __findPackagesToUpdate self.availableUpdates = plist.getPackagesToInstall() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 258, in getPackagesToInstall result = self.__skipPackages(result) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 285, in __skipPackages packageList = self.__skipFiles(packageList) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 306, in __skipFiles ignoreMsgCallback = self.ignoreMsgCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 365, in buildHeaderList hdr = headerList[pkg] File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/headers.py", line 121, in __getitem__ self.__retrievePackage(item) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/headers.py", line 126, in __retrievePackage hdr, sourceType = rpcServer.doCall(rpmSource.psc.headerSource.getHeader, item) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 107, in doCall ret = apply(method, args, kwargs) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 239, in getHeader header = source.getHeader(pkg, progressCallback = progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 666, in getHeader fd = self.s.getPackageHeader(channel, filename) 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 126, in _request verbose=self._verbose File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 141, in request return self.parse_response(fd) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 157, in parse_response p.feed(response) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 390, in feed self._parser.Parse(data, 0) xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.up2date --install python 2.up2date --install <some new pkg> 3. Actual Results: See above Expected Results: up2date with valid status Additional info:
I am running RH 8.0 (fresh install..desktop level). I had been using the up2date just fine the past couple of days. I am a newbie so I wanted to try a few things. I reinstalled RH8.0 with the Workstation level (reformatted the drive too) but when I went to use up2date last night (Oct 30/31), I got the same errors as the gentlemen above. I know this because I ran up2date from the command line. I have another drive with 7.3 on it and it is currently updating (10:31AM-EST 10/21/2002) just fine. Is this a problem with RH8 or did the problem get resolved between 9:30AM EST 10/31/2002 and now (10:31AM-EST 10/21/2002) ?
We did some experimental changes on the server side, trying to compress headers. A bug in rhnlib (from what I can tell) prevents the 8.0 client from understanding compressed rpm headers, therefore we backed up the change. Should work fine now.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77017 ***
Add I bought a service package thinking it would help. :-p
It works now ..
edward.clark: no, we are not _that_ sick :-)