Bug 81787 - up2date error with Traceback
Summary: up2date error with Traceback
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: up2date   
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Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Adrian Likins
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Reported: 2003-01-14 00:09 UTC by David Mitchell
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-03-10 16:07:57 UTC
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Description David Mitchell 2003-01-14 00:09:20 UTC 
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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 05:00:07 UTC 
What happens when you run `rpm --rebuilddb`
and try it again?
Comment 2 David Mitchell 2003-01-15 20:15:22 UTC 
Same results...
Comment 3 Adrian Likins 2003-01-16 06:09:24 UTC 
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 18:10:56 UTC 
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 16:00:24 UTC 
Adding the package corrected this problem in my case. 
Up2date works for me now
Comment 6 Josef Komenda 2003-03-10 16:07:57 UTC 
Fixed, closing.
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