Description of problem: Sometimes, some apply errata fails with message "Error while executing packages action: None". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhn-client-tools-0.4.20-77.el5 How reproducible: rarely Steps to Reproduce: 1. Schedule bunch of errata applications through WebUI 2. Run `rhn_check -vv` on the client Actual results: D: check_action {'action': "<?xml version='1.0'?>\n<methodCall>\n<methodName>errata.update</methodName>\n<params>\n<param>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><int>704</int></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</param>\n</params>\n</methodCall>\n", 'version': 2, 'id': 163} updateLoginInfo() login info D: login(forceUpdate=True) invoked logging into up2date server D: writeCachedLogin() invoked D: Wrote pickled loginInfo at 1346284460.44 with expiration of 1346288060.44 seconds. successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server D: logininfo: {'X-RHN-Server-Id': 1000010011, 'X-RHN-Auth-Server-Time': '1346284460.43', 'X-RHN-Auth': 'KyDuT3X2EAazyIEt5RaAhA==', 'X-RHN-Auth-Channels': [['parent-uuxrr', '20120829180522', '1', '1'], ['child-of-parent-uuxrr', '20120829180532', '0', '1']], 'X-RHN-Auth-User-Id': '', 'X-RHN-Auth-Expire-Offset': '3600.0'} D: handle_action {'action': "<?xml version='1.0'?>\n<methodCall>\n<methodName>errata.update</methodName>\n<params>\n<param>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><int>704</int></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</param>\n</params>\n</methodCall>\n", 'version': 2, 'id': 163} D: handle_action actionid = 163, version = 2 D: do_call errata.update ([704],) {'cache_only': None} Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin D: Called update [['test-arch-uuxrr-1-InParent', '0.2', '2', '', 'i386']] D: Sending back response ((6,), 'Error while executing packages action: None', {}) Please note that "None" which is strange. Expected results: It should work or provide better error message
I'm closing this as a duplicate of bug #853799 which has some customer cases attached. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 853799 ***
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I think that this is a duplicate of bug 853799, even given the different error messages. However I can't be sure because I can't reproduce. Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA, with the caveat that I think this won't happen anymore once we release a fix for bug 853799.