Bug 81787 – up2date error with Traceback

Bug 81787 - up2date error with Traceback

Summary:	up2date error with Traceback

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	up2date (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Adrian Likins
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Reported:	2003-01-13 19:09 EST by David Mitchell
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:49 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2003-03-10 11:07:57 EST
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Description David Mitchell 2003-01-13 19:09:20 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686)

Description of problem:
I tried to run up2date for the first time, and I got the following stdout:

[dmitch@jules dmitch]$ up2date
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 17, in ?
    from up2date_client import rpcServer
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 8, in ?
    import up2dateAuth
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 4, in ?
    import rpmSource
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 11, in ?
    import up2dateUtils
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py", line 15, in ?
    import rpmUtils
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmUtils.py", line 274, in ?
    rpm_version = getRpmVersion()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmUtils.py", line 269, in getRpmVersion
    raise up2dateErrors.RpmError("Couldn't determine what version of rpm you are
running.\nIf you get this error, try running \n\n\t\trpm --rebuilddb\n\n")
up2date_client.up2dateErrors.RpmError: RPM error.  The message was:
Couldn't determine what version of rpm you are running.
If you get this error, try running 

		rpm --rebuilddb


[dmitch@jules dmitch]$ 


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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Installed Redhat 6.2 Professional
2.Ran up2date from the command line as root
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2003-01-15 00:00:07 EST

What happens when you run `rpm --rebuilddb`
and try it again?

Comment 2 David Mitchell 2003-01-15 15:15:22 EST

Same results...

Comment 3 Adrian Likins 2003-01-16 01:09:24 EST

what's happening is up2date is unable to find a package that
provdes "redhat-release"

can you try:
     rpm -q --what-provides "redhat-release"

also:

    rpm -q redhat-release

Comment 4 David Mitchell 2003-01-17 13:10:56 EST

Thanks for the response. :) Here's the results:

[root@jules dmitch]# rpm -q --whatprovides "redhat-release"
redhat-release-6.2-1
[root@jules dmitch]# rpm -q redhat-release
redhat-release-6.2-1
[root@jules dmitch]#

Comment 5 Need Real Name 2003-03-10 11:00:24 EST

Adding the package corrected this problem in my case. 
Up2date works for me now

Comment 6 Josef Komenda 2003-03-10 11:07:57 EST

Fixed, closing.

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