Latest rhn-applet from rawhide

Jim Cornette cornette at insight.rr.com
Sun Jan 11 14:13:53 UTC 2004


rhn-applet - see below:

Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
> 
> Mike Chambers wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 07:38, Mike Chambers wrote:
>>
>>> As of yesterday, it seems the rhn-applet errors out trying to connect to
>>> check for updates (although, up2date itself seems to work)..
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, it seems up2date errors out as well on a system with no X and
>> running via CLI..
>>
>> Fetching rpm headers...
>> ########################################
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1259, in ?
>>     sys.exit(main() or 0)
>>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 795, in main
>>     fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
>>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1138, in batchRun
>>     batch.run()
>>   File "up2dateBatch.py", line 60, in run
>>   File "up2dateBatch.py", line 107, in __findPackagesToUpdate
>>   File "packageList.py", line 558, in getPackagesToInstall
>>   File "packageList.py", line 587, in __skipPackages
>>   File "packageList.py", line 611, in __skipFiles
>>   File "rpmUtils.py", line 244, in checkHeaderForFileConfigExcludes
>> TypeError: len() of unsized object
>>
>> [root at homer cron.daily]# rpm -qa | grep up2date
>> up2date-4.3.1-2


Regarding the rhn-applet. I got a pop-up menu that asked to cut the 
information regarding the rhn-applet error. I gave one for before and 
after the update to applet at rhn.redhat.com, as instructed.

The after yum rhn-applet spewed out the below error.

Exception type exceptions.StopIteration

Exception Handler Information
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet.py", line 458, in refresh
     self.model.refresh(force)
   File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_model.py", line 374, in 
refresh
     self.__rpmdb__.refresh(force)
   File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_rpm.py", line 149, in refresh
     all_packages = self.__find_by_iter("match", 0)
   File "/usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/rhn_applet_rpm.py", line 104, in 
__find_by_iter
     h = iterator.next()
StopIteration

Jim





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