Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 99396
up2date fails with TypeError: unsubscriptable object
Last modified: 2007-03-27 00:07:55 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Description of problem: When running up2date on a 7.3 machine, the error output at the bottom occurs. This machine was offline awile, but I was able to run up2date package by package to narrow it down to something in the KDE advisory (RHSA-2003:002 - Security Advisory). If it matters, I'm running up2date via SSH, but I also had the same problem via VNC. [root@linuxbox root]# up2date --nox -u Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... ######################################## Fetching rpm headers... Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 781, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 569, in main pkgNames, fullUpdate, dryRun = dry_run)) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 724, in batchRun batch.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 57, in run self.__findPackagesToUpdate() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 92, in __findPackagesToUpdate self.availableUpdates = plist.getPackagesToInstall() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 295, in getPackagesToInstall result = self.__skipPackages(result) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 321, in __skipPackages packageList = self.__skipFiles(packageList) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 336, in __skipFiles ignoreMsgCallback = self.ignoreMsgCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 400, in buildHeaderList hdr = headerList[pkg] File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/headers.py", line 123, in __getitem__ self.__retrievePackage(item) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/headers.py", line 128, in __retrievePackage hdr, sourceType = rpcServer.doCall(rpmSource.psc.headerSource.getHeader, item) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 112, 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 379, in getHeader self.headerCache[pkgToStringArch(pkg)] = hdr File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/headers.py", line 61, in __setitem__ self.__cacheLite[item] = self.__liteCopy(value) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/headers.py", line 49, in __liteCopy tmp['name'] = header['name'] TypeError: unsubscriptable object Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-2.8.39-1.7.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run up2date from Console or X 2. 3. Actual Results: Message output above Expected Results: System should have been updated. Additional info:
I get almost the same error, but with slightly different (yet still incomprehensible) messages. Here is the output of up2date: ------< BEGIN >------ [root@myserver root]# up2date-nox --update Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-9... ######################################## Fetching rpm headers... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date-nox", line 993, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/up2date-nox", line 720, in main fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run)) File "/usr/sbin/up2date-nox", line 893, in batchRun batch.run() File "up2dateBatch.py", line 57, in run File "up2dateBatch.py", line 91, in __findPackagesToUpdate File "packageList.py", line 308, in getPackagesToInstall File "packageList.py", line 336, in __skipPackages File "packageList.py", line 357, in __skipFiles File "packageList.py", line 416, in buildHeaderList File "headers.py", line 121, in __getitem__ File "headers.py", line 126, in __retrievePackage File "rpcServer.py", line 114, in doCall File "rpmSource.py", line 239, in getHeader File "rpmSource.py", line 677, in getHeader File "rpmSource.py", line 130, in saveHeader TypeError: unsubscriptable object ------< END >------ I have a i686 system and RedHat Linux 9. And unfortunately I have a very slow Internet connection. I think that this error might be caused by a time-out, but still no error message indicates this.
I forgot to mention that I use up2date-3.1.23-1
The following command seemed to cure it for me: rm -f $(find /var/spool/up2date -type f | grep -v rpm$) Before this, I ran the following (but this didn't seem to cure it because I still had to run the above) killall up2date killall rpm rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/__* up2date -p
Still happens in up2date-3.1.23.2-1 under RedHat 9: ----- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py", line 1063, in showAdvisory advisories = rhnErrata.getAdvisoryInfo(rowData[1]) TypeError: unsubscriptable object ----- Above appeared in Terminal console when running up2date in background ["up2date &"] and choosing "View advisory" when sane-backends-1.0.9-5.1 was the only item in the out-of-date list, and was selected.
Removing security severity. This is not a security issue.